{"id":163378,"date":"2014-07-16T14:16:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T14:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.maine.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=163378"},"modified":"2014-07-16T14:16:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T14:16:01","slug":"chris-van-patten","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/maine.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker\/chris-van-patten\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Van Patten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As founder and creative director of Van Patten Media, Chris Van Patten has helped build websites for Broadway performers, small businesses, tech news publications, and countless others. Before migrating to NYC, Chris created \u201cBfloFRED,\u201d the Buffalo, NY Front-End Developers meetup (later expanded to include sister meetups in Manchester, UK and Toronto, ON) and co-organised Buffalo\u2019s inaugural WordCamp. He regularly speaks at WordPress events, and writes at vanpattenmedia.com and chrisvanpatten.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As founder and creative director of Van Patten Media, Chris Van Patten has helped build websites for Broadway performers, small businesses, tech news publications, and countless others. Before migrating to NYC, Chris created \u201cBfloFRED,\u201d the Buffalo, NY Front-End Developers meetup (later expanded to include sister meetups in Manchester, UK and Toronto, ON) and co-organised Buffalo\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maine.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker\/chris-van-patten\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chris Van Patten<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6736690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"chrisvanpatten","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-163378","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d6192175d9a35deb60f51fcd760f4d74a7d07035e580889bb1f01fcb6e2d9a2?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d6192175d9a35deb60f51fcd760f4d74a7d07035e580889bb1f01fcb6e2d9a2?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d6192175d9a35deb60f51fcd760f4d74a7d07035e580889bb1f01fcb6e2d9a2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d6192175d9a35deb60f51fcd760f4d74a7d07035e580889bb1f01fcb6e2d9a2?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d6192175d9a35deb60f51fcd760f4d74a7d07035e580889bb1f01fcb6e2d9a2?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d6192175d9a35deb60f51fcd760f4d74a7d07035e580889bb1f01fcb6e2d9a2?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maine.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/163378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maine.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maine.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maine.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6736690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maine.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maine.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/163378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163379,"href":"https:\/\/maine.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/163378\/revisions\/163379"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maine.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/163662?_embed=1&context=view"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maine.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/163505?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maine.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maine.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=163378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}