{"id":2178,"date":"2016-04-29T12:03:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T17:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.stlouis.wordcamp.org\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2016-04-29T12:03:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T17:03:33","slug":"meet-our-keynotes-chris-lema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/meet-our-keynotes-chris-lema\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet our Keynote: Chris Lema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re really happy to announce that Chris Lema is\u00a0one of our keynotes at WordCamp St. Louis 2016. For our 5th WordCamp for St. Louis, we wanted it to be extra special, and what better to do that then have Chris Lema be a keynote!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2214\" src=\"https:\/\/2016.stlouis.wordcamp.org\/files\/2016\/04\/wcstl-keynote-chris-lema-600x315.png\" alt=\"wcstl-keynote-chris-lema-600x315\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/wcstl-keynote-chris-lema-600x315.png 600w, https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/wcstl-keynote-chris-lema-600x315-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/wcstl-keynote-chris-lema-600x315-500x263.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nChris is from San Diego, California. He is a public speaker, and a product stategist. He&#8217;s also a daily blogger at <a href=\"http:\/\/chrislema.com\" target=\"_blank\">ChrisLema.com<\/a>. He&#8217;s also a dad, who have gotten his family to blog too! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Chris has become an inspiration to\u00a0the WordPress\u00a0community as a whole, especially in drawing them together. When he presents, he weaves a story that many can relate to. \u00a0His talks at WordCamps and other conferences, leave you thinking on how you can apply his concepts to your own business.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also an inspiration to bloggers, proving that you can blog daily, still work, and still have time for the family.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;ve enjoyed every talk he has done. One of my favorite quotes from a past talk by Chris,\u00a0is &#8220;Hope is not a strategy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chris will be speaking on\u00a0<b>The Future of WordPress &amp; Where You Fit In. <\/b>He describes his talk as:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>There&#8217;s always a risk that the technology you invest in will disappear. WordPress as a product requires WordPress as a community to ensure a long future. Come hear Chris&#8217; perspective on how what&#8217;s good for us is good for WordPress. Your future awaits.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He will also be a part of the Business panel on Day 2. Chris makes himself very available, so if you have some questions, you&#8217;re in luck!<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to having Chris Lema at the event, and we think you will too.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t gotten your WordCamp tickets, please don&#8217;t miss out on Chris Lema&#8217;s talk, as well as the awesome speakers on our <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.stlouis.wordcamp.org\/schedule\/\">schedule<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.stlouis.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\"><strong>Get your WordCamp St. Louis tickets today!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re really happy to announce that Chris Lema is\u00a0one of our keynotes at WordCamp St. Louis 2016. For our 5th WordCamp for St. Louis, we wanted it to be extra special, and what better to do that then have Chris &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/meet-our-keynotes-chris-lema\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Meet our Keynote: Chris Lema<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1346476,"featured_media":2214,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[29716,528707],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers","tag-keynote","tag-speaker-announcement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/wcstl-keynote-chris-lema-600x315.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iJYS-z8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1346476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouis.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}