{"id":2566,"date":"2006-03-28T16:18:37","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T22:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photomatt.net\/2006\/03\/28\/in-toronto\/"},"modified":"2006-03-28T16:18:37","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T22:18:37","slug":"in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2006\/03\/in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"In Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting ready to hop the redeye to the lovely city of Toronto for the <a href=\"http:\/\/isummit.ca\/\">iSummit conference<\/a> where I&#8217;ll be speaking about social media (whatever that is). Thursday night there&#8217;ll be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gtabloggers.com\/blog\/_archives\/2006\/3\/21\/1832763.html\">GTA blogger meetup<\/a> which sounds like it&#8217;ll be a blast &#8212; I had no idea there were so many bloggers and WordPress users in Toronto. If you&#8217;ll be in Toronto any time before Saturday please drop me an email or try to come to the meetup Thursday night, I&#8217;d love to meet more folks out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting ready to hop the redeye to the lovely city of Toronto for the iSummit conference where I&#8217;ll be speaking about social media (whatever that is). Thursday night there&#8217;ll be a GTA blogger meetup which sounds like it&#8217;ll be a blast &#8212; I had no idea there were so many bloggers and WordPress users &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2006\/03\/in-toronto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Toronto<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"fullscreen","default_image_id":54207,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[33,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-travel"],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2006\/03\/in-toronto\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"In Toronto","url":"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2006\/03\/in-toronto\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2006\/03\/in-toronto\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Asides","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt"}],"creator":["Matt"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Matt Mullenweg","logo":"http:\/\/ma.tt\/files\/2021\/05\/Photo-on-2020-10-28-at-2.05-PM-1.jpg"},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2006-03-28T22:18:37Z","datePublished":"2006-03-28T22:18:37Z","dateModified":"2006-03-28T22:18:37Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"In Toronto\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/ma.tt\\\/2006\\\/03\\\/in-toronto\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/ma.tt\\\/2006\\\/03\\\/in-toronto\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Asides\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Matt\"}],\"creator\":[\"Matt\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"Matt Mullenweg\",\"logo\":\"http:\\\/\\\/ma.tt\\\/files\\\/2021\\\/05\\\/Photo-on-2020-10-28-at-2.05-PM-1.jpg\"},\"keywords\":[],\"dateCreated\":\"2006-03-28T22:18:37Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2006-03-28T22:18:37Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2006-03-28T22:18:37Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/ma.tt\/p.js"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oB3-Fo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2609,"url":"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2006\/05\/back-to-toronto\/","url_meta":{"origin":2566,"position":0},"title":"Back to Toronto","author":"Matt","date":"May 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"After just enough time to do my laundry and eat some BBQ, I'm heading back out to Toronto. 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