{"id":219,"date":"2025-12-12T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/matt-aldeas\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:45:00","slug":"matt-aldeas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/matt-aldeas\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Aldeas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight was a lot of threads connecting for me. At <a href=\"https:\/\/automattic.space\/\">Automattic\u2019s Noho Space<\/a> we hosted an event for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/01\/movies\/martin-scorsese-pope-francis-documentary.html\">Martin Scorsese\u2019s new documentary about Pope Francis, called Aldeas<\/a>. There was a point in my life when I wanted to become a priest, and I had been inspired by meeting a Franciscan seminary student. I took it very seriously and considered that as a path for my life, but some combination of jazz and girls made me realize that the priesthood was not my destiny.<\/p>\n<p>The jazz led to building websites for Houston jazz musicians, which led to coding, which led to WordPress, which after a lot of twists and turns led to <a href=\"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2019\/08\/tumblr-the-day-after\/\">Automattic acquiring Tumblr<\/a>. One of Tumblr\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goncharov_(meme)\">greatest memes was Goncharov<\/a>, directed by Martin Scorsese. The only reason Automattic, as a distributed company, has an office in NYC is because of the Tumblr acquisition. The office is filled with art from Tumblr artists so I had the very surreal experience of talking after Martin Scorsese, who at 83 is sharp as a tack and a gifted speaker, a few feet away from a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goncharov_(meme)#\/media\/File:Goncharov-poster.png\">Goncharov poster<\/a> about how my Catholic upbringing led me down the path of starting WordPress, and how Pope Francis\u2019 life inspired the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2025\/04\/jubilee\/\">WordPress Jubilee<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ma.tt\/2025\/04\/reflecting\/\">reflection<\/a>. Full circle.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight was a lot of threads connecting for me. At Automattic\u2019s Noho Space we hosted an event for Martin Scorsese\u2019s new documentary about Pope Francis, called Aldeas. There was a point in my life when I wanted to become a priest, and I had been inspired by meeting a Franciscan seminary student. I took it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}