{"id":7640,"date":"2009-01-28T13:36:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T13:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/itexpo_east_2009_miami_panel_info.html"},"modified":"2009-01-28T13:36:52","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T13:36:52","slug":"itexpo-east-2009-miami-panel-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/itexpo-east-2009-miami-panel-info.html","title":{"rendered":"ITEXPO East 2009 Miami Panel Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, thought it made sense to pass along this press release TMC is about to put out so you know what is happening at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\">ITEXPO<\/a> this Monday-Wednesday in Miami. Hope to see you there soon.<\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8212; and I used the highlighter pretty liberally because i was in one of those moods. 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