{"id":2158,"date":"2018-10-17T18:41:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T22:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.portlandme.wordcamp.org\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2018-10-17T18:41:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T22:41:12","slug":"introducing-the-2018-wapuu-for-wordcamp-portland-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portlandme.wordcamp.org\/2018\/updates\/introducing-the-2018-wapuu-for-wordcamp-portland-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the 2018 Wapuu for WordCamp Portland, Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>What is a Wapuu?<\/h5>\n<p>A member of the Japanese WordPress community, Kazuko Kaneuchi, set out to design a WordPress mascot in 2011. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/ja.wordpress.org\/about-wp-ja\/wapuu\/\">wapuu design<\/a> is now the official mascot of WordPress and variations have emerged worldwide.<\/p>\n<h5>Meet <a href=\"https:\/\/2018.portlandme.wordcamp.org\/social-media-stream\/\">#WCPWM18<\/a>\u2019s Wapuu<\/h5>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Wapuu is inspired by Maine native Stephen King&#8217;s novel and the relaunch of the hit movie IT.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2037\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.portlandme.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/10\/Stephen-King-Wapuu.png\" alt=\"WordCamp Portland, Maine 2018 Wapuu\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WordCamp Portland, ME organizer <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenquirk.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Quirk<\/a> created the version above for this year\u2019s event. In previous years, we\u2019ve featured a <a href=\"https:\/\/wapu.us\/wapuu\/wharf\/\">fisher<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wapu.us\/wapuu\/maine-wabster\/\">prey<\/a> wapuu as well as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wapu.us\/wapuu\/jack\/\">lumberjack<\/a> wapuu.<\/p>\n<p>When this year&#8217;s collection of Wapuu&#8217;s are not haunting the sewers, hallways and hiding under your bed, you\u2019ll find them at WordCamp Portland, ME &#8211; which is where you should be too! Get your <a href=\"https:\/\/2018.portlandme.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\">tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a Wapuu? A member of the Japanese WordPress community, Kazuko Kaneuchi, set out to design a WordPress mascot in 2011. Her wapuu design is now the official mascot of WordPress and variations have emerged worldwide. Meet #WCPWM18\u2019s Wapuu This year&#8217;s Wapuu is inspired by Maine native Stephen King&#8217;s novel and the relaunch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10438027,"featured_media":2160,"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":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/portlandme.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/10\/Stephen-King-Wapuu.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NyYe-yO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portlandme.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portlandme.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portlandme.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portlandme.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10438027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portlandme.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/portlandme.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/portlandme.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portlandme.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portlandme.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portlandme.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portlandme.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}