{"id":217520,"date":"2013-11-04T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/?p=217520"},"modified":"2013-10-26T10:25:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T14:25:56","slug":"speaker-spotlight-lee-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker-spotlight-lee-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight:  Lee Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_48152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48152\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2013.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/files\/2013\/09\/lee-blue.png\" alt=\"Lee Blue\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48152\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lee Blue<\/figcaption><\/figure>We&#8217;re very pleased to announce that Lee Blue will be a speaker at this year&#8217;s WordCamp Raleigh!  Lee&#8217;s session will cover WordPress E-commerce and he will be presenting to the Power Users Track.  <\/p>\n<p>Lee Blue is the founder and lead developer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cart66.com\/\" title=\"Cart66 WordPress e-commerce plugin\" target=\"_blank\">Cart66<\/a> WordPress e-commerce plugin and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mijireh.com\" title=\"Mijireh secure hosted checkout platform\" target=\"_blank\">Mijireh<\/a>, the secure hosted checkout platform. After getting his degree in computer science, Lee worked for the United States government doing bio-terrorism surveillance and managing electronic medical records. In 2008, with a heightened awareness of security Lee approached WordPress e-commerce and developed one of the first e-commerce plugins, Cart66. For over 5 years he has been learning what people need for e-commerce and delivering solutions to the WordPress community.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Session:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/2013.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/session\/wordpress-e-commerce\/\">WordPress E-commerce<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Track:<\/strong> Power Users<\/p>\n<div class=\"speaker-follow-buttons\"><a title=\"Follow Lee Blue on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leehblue\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2034\" src=\"http:\/\/2012.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/files\/2012\/09\/twitter_icon.png\" alt=\"Follow Lee Blue on Twitter\" width=\"39\" height=\"51\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Visit Lee Blue's Website\" href=\"http:\/\/cart66.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2035\" src=\"http:\/\/2012.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/files\/2012\/09\/web_icon.png\" alt=\"Visit Lee Blue's Website\" width=\"39\" height=\"51\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re very pleased to announce that Lee Blue will be a speaker at this year&#8217;s WordCamp Raleigh! Lee&#8217;s session will cover WordPress E-commerce and he will be presenting to the Power Users Track. Lee Blue is the founder and lead developer of the Cart66 WordPress e-commerce plugin and Mijireh, the secure hosted checkout platform. After &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2013\/speaker-spotlight-lee-blue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Spotlight:  Lee Blue<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10602892,"featured_media":157663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178843],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordcamp-raleigh-2013"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/09\/lee-blue.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O3xJ-UAo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10602892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220872,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217520\/revisions\/220872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}