{"id":974,"date":"2018-05-22T16:21:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=974"},"modified":"2018-05-22T16:21:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:21:48","slug":"laura-byrne-cristiano","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker\/laura-byrne-cristiano\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Byrne-Cristiano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura started her first WordPress site in March 2006 when she started a website with a blog and forum for fans to discuss a then little-known book called Twilight. What started as a small site with maybe 30 visitors a week, rapidly grew into the most popular Twilight website on the Internet with millions of visitors each day from around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>This lead to Laura transitioning from a career in teaching to one in marketing as she hit the ground running with a whole new skill set including podcasting, video editing, SEO, social media management and content marketing and more.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, she\u2019s created\/written for 20+ WordPress sites mostly in the areas of education and entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura started her first WordPress site in March 2006 when she started a website with a blog and forum for fans to discuss a then little-known book called Twilight. What started as a small site with maybe 30 visitors a week, rapidly grew into the most popular Twilight website on the Internet with millions of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker\/laura-byrne-cristiano\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Laura Byrne-Cristiano&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15279213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"newyorkerlaura","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-974","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p94XF9-fI","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a34607d7436bbd42f98dd5dd7825f587464b97da643cfc217460f270f720700e?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a34607d7436bbd42f98dd5dd7825f587464b97da643cfc217460f270f720700e?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a34607d7436bbd42f98dd5dd7825f587464b97da643cfc217460f270f720700e?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a34607d7436bbd42f98dd5dd7825f587464b97da643cfc217460f270f720700e?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a34607d7436bbd42f98dd5dd7825f587464b97da643cfc217460f270f720700e?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a34607d7436bbd42f98dd5dd7825f587464b97da643cfc217460f270f720700e?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15279213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/974\/revisions\/975"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1294?_embed=1&context=view"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1282?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}