{"id":247677,"date":"2013-08-30T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.la.wordcamp.org\/?p=247677"},"modified":"2013-08-30T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T16:29:09","slug":"sponsor-spotlight-chris-lema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2013\/sponsor-spotlight-chris-lema\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsor Spotlight: Chris Lema"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>My passion is the development of products that delight people. It\u2019s really that simple. And since I\u2019ve been doing product development for over 18 years, I\u2019ve made most of the mistakes I now try to help others avoid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2013.la.wordcamp.org\/files\/2013\/08\/chrislema-name-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-249876\" alt=\"chrislema-name-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/2013.la.wordcamp.org\/files\/2013\/08\/chrislema-name-logo.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a>So. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/chrislema.com\">This guy<\/a>. THIS GUY!<\/em> You know who he is. I know who he is. He&#8217;s a person that people talk about when he&#8217;s not in the room; people talk about him in different States; heck, people <a href=\"http:\/\/blamelema.com\">blame him<\/a> for all kinds of things that probably aren&#8217;t his fault, but his name lends itself to hashtags easily. You see, this guy is pretty cool. <em>This guy<\/em> blogs daily at some place somewhere on the internet. But you knew that already. <strong>Didn&#8217;t you?<\/strong> Don&#8217;t lie!! This guy helps high achievers excel even more&#8230;. But that&#8217;s not all.<\/p>\n<p>You see, <em>this fella<\/em> is special. The WordPress community would be an emptier place without him. His drive and his passion have created conversations we&#8217;re still talking about. He&#8217;s a tireless jetsetter who seemingly gives and gives and gives until he can&#8217;t give anymore&#8230; But then he does. But even then, when you think he&#8217;s done giving, he&#8217;s not. HE&#8217;S NOT DONE DONE unless he says it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t just talk the talk. He walks it, too. <strong><em>He inspires, mentors, teaches<\/em><\/strong> and that&#8217;s just to those who aren&#8217;t his immediate family. There&#8217;s soo many good things to say about a man who is a true pillar of the community and someone who I have great respect for, as do many of us.<\/p>\n<p>We are honored to have this guy as a Keynote speaker and also as a sponsor for this year&#8217;s WordCamp. If he&#8217;s helped you at some point, walk up to <em>that guy<\/em> and say &#8220;thanks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thank so much&#8230; guy! =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My passion is the development of products that delight people. It\u2019s really that simple. And since I\u2019ve been doing product development for over 18 years, I\u2019ve made most of the mistakes I now try to help others avoid. So. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2013\/sponsor-spotlight-chris-lema\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sponsor Spotlight: Chris Lema<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7841773,"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":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sponsors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EHGQ-12qN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7841773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249877,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247677\/revisions\/249877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}