{"id":2153,"date":"2017-07-18T14:55:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T19:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.us.wordcamp.org\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2017-07-18T18:19:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T23:19:27","slug":"wcus-community-bazaar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wcus-community-bazaar\/","title":{"rendered":"WCUS Community Bazaar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2184\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2184\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2017.us.wordcamp.org\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2937-300x290.jpg?resize=300%2C290&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2937.jpg?resize=300%2C290&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2937.jpg?resize=768%2C743&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2937.jpg?resize=1024%2C991&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2937.jpg?resize=310%2C300&amp;ssl=1 310w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/07\/IMG_2937.jpg?w=1575&amp;ssl=1 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WordPressers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ll never forget my first time at a WordPress event. It was at the WordCamp San Diego 2012 after-party. I was new and being introduced to many faces that night. Almost immediately I felt a sense of shock at how warm &amp; inviting this community was. This was one of the very few times I had been around a group of people that genuinely cared about getting to know me; that sincerely desired to listen to me; that was just plain interested in others more than themselves. I was hooked.<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everyone has their \u201cWordPress origin story;\u201d the story of how they got sucked into\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 1rem\">the community.<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0How they discovered a community to get involved with and invest in. This is mine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What is yours? Tell us about your local WordPress Community and what makes it special. We would love to feature our local and regional WordPress communities at our <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.us.wordcamp.org\/community-bazaar\/\">WCUS 2017 Community Bazaar<\/a>! Read all about it and join us in the fun!<\/p>\n<p>Check out WP Tavern&#8217;s interview of two of our organizers where they talk community love:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"8o4mDx6JhO\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wptavern.com\/interview-with-wordcamp-us-2017-organizers-dustin-meza-and-laura-byrne-cristiano\">Interview with WordCamp US 2017 Organizers Dustin Meza and Laura Byrne-Cristiano<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Interview with WordCamp US 2017 Organizers Dustin Meza and Laura Byrne-Cristiano&#8221; &#8212; WP Tavern\" src=\"https:\/\/wptavern.com\/interview-with-wordcamp-us-2017-organizers-dustin-meza-and-laura-byrne-cristiano\/embed#?secret=3AKxCBG1zO#?secret=8o4mDx6JhO\" data-secret=\"8o4mDx6JhO\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll never forget my first time at a WordPress event. It was at the WordCamp San Diego 2012 after-party. I was new and being introduced to many faces that night. Almost immediately I felt a sense of shock at how warm &amp; inviting this community was. This was one of the very few times I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wcus-community-bazaar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WCUS Community Bazaar!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14065935,"featured_media":2305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"WCUS Community Bazaar!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/07\/WPAZ-edited.jpg?fit=2048%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aOEk-yJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14065935"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}