{"id":1088,"date":"2016-08-22T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.sydney.wordcamp.org\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2016-08-21T17:17:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T07:17:47","slug":"speaker-scott-huntley-three-incredibly-nerdy-but-ultimately-pointless-topics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker-scott-huntley-three-incredibly-nerdy-but-ultimately-pointless-topics\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker: Scott Huntley &#8211; Three Incredibly Nerdy But Ultimately Pointless Topics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"918\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker\/scott-huntley\/scott\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/scott.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"scott\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/scott.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/scott.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-918\" src=\"https:\/\/2016.sydney.wordcamp.org\/files\/2016\/08\/scott.jpg\" alt=\"scott\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/scott.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/scott-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Meet <a href=\"http:\/\/scott.technology\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Huntley<\/a> &#8211; another veteran conference speaker and long standing member of the Sydney WordPress community.<\/p>\n<p>Scott is a Consultant\/Trainer for Pukunui Technology and a part-time IT instructor at SWSI TAFE.\u00a0 He also occasionally runs WordPress classes at his local community college.<\/p>\n<p>Scott has two great open source loves: WordPress and the learning management system Moodle.<\/p>\n<p>He is passionate about approaching eLearning in imaginative and innovative ways, and has been dabbling in using the Internet of Things (IoT) to that end.<\/p>\n<p>Scott hails from the Great White North, which would explain the accent, eh.<\/p>\n<p>We couldn&#8217;t resist letting Scott loose to speak at WordCamp Sydney 2016 on his imaginative session entitled &#8220;Three Incredibly Nerdy But Ultimately Pointless Topics&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It may contain a reference to a rodent, perhaps a story about a sofa and some cushions and just maybe some tiny tiny nerdasticly cool things.<\/p>\n<p>Who can resist that, eh?<\/p>\n<p>You can follow Scott on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kshuntley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Scott Huntley &#8211; another veteran conference speaker and long standing member of the Sydney WordPress community. Scott is a Consultant\/Trainer for Pukunui Technology and a part-time IT instructor at SWSI TAFE.\u00a0 He also occasionally runs WordPress classes at his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker-scott-huntley-three-incredibly-nerdy-but-ultimately-pointless-topics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Speaker: Scott Huntley &#8211; Three Incredibly Nerdy But Ultimately Pointless Topics<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14568066,"featured_media":918,"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":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[5041,960466,961145,960682,960879],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers","tag-developer","tag-iot","tag-nerdtastic","tag-pherlog","tag-sofas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/scott.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7aDMH-hy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14568066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}