{"id":3060,"date":"2015-08-17T18:17:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T12:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.pune.wordcamp.org\/?p=3060"},"modified":"2015-08-17T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T12:56:08","slug":"welcome-to-the-blogger-gym-where-ramya-pandyan-is-your-instructor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/welcome-to-the-blogger-gym-where-ramya-pandyan-is-your-instructor\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Blogger Gym where Ramya Pandyan is your instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-200 photo alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/1.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d76535b3527cb0fab033b41f22f4c2e7?s=200&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>Ramya Pandyan has been blogging before blogging even became a thing. She has previously spoken at WordCamp Mumbai 2014 and 2015 edition. At WordCamp Pune she&#8217;s the awesome sauce helping us with some great speakers, organising <a href=\"https:\/\/2015.pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/08\/17\/presenting-the-word-lounge-by-alphabet-sambar\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Word Lounge by Alphabet Sambar<\/a> and conducting <strong>The Blogger Gym \u2013 an interactive workshop on blog creation<\/strong> in\u00a0addition to all that. More about the workshop, in a while.<\/p>\n<p>IdeaSmith is the digital doppelganger of Ramya Pandyan (intrepid train-traveller and frequent spouter of post-midnight rhymes and rants). As IdeaSmith she battles obscurity and slays boredom with her stories about men, books, digitalia and Mumbai. She performs live and also blogs, tweets, Instagrams, Facebooks, +G&#8217;s, Youtubes and Goodreads all as IdeaSmith.<\/p>\n<p>She also runs a forum for aspiring writers called Alphabet Sambar, which brings the Word Lounge to WordCamp Pune 2015. Ramya&#8217;s verbal performances air at <a href=\"http:\/\/ideasmithy.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Idea-smithy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/xxfactor.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">XX Factor<\/a>. Tweet-bomb her at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ideasmithy\" target=\"_blank\">@ideasmithy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramya Pandyan has been blogging before blogging even became a thing. She has previously spoken at WordCamp Mumbai 2014 and 2015 edition. At WordCamp Pune she&#8217;s the awesome sauce helping us with some great speakers, organising the Word Lounge by Alphabet Sambar and conducting The Blogger Gym \u2013 an interactive workshop on blog creation in\u00a0addition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/welcome-to-the-blogger-gym-where-ramya-pandyan-is-your-instructor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to the Blogger Gym where Ramya Pandyan is your instructor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3953804,"featured_media":0,"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":"","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":[29,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers","category-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67dsD-Nm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3953804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3060"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pune.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}