{"id":4002,"date":"2018-11-05T02:17:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T02:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/frances-bishop-i-learnt-more-as-a-barmaid-than-at-university\/"},"modified":"2018-11-05T02:17:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T02:17:26","slug":"frances-bishop-i-learnt-more-as-a-barmaid-than-at-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/frances-bishop-i-learnt-more-as-a-barmaid-than-at-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Frances Bishop: &#8216;I learnt more as a barmaid than at university&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Former Apprentice contestant Frances Bishop doesn\u2019t think higher education is for everyone. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, she says dropping out of uni and working behind a bar helped her build the Pud Store, a successful designer childrenswear boutique. <\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s had to think creatively \u2013 she can&#8217;t sell clothes via a website because brands don&#8217;t want discounted stock to be openly available, so she came up with an innovative way to do business. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the UK High Street being in crisis, her company keeps on growing.<\/p>\n<p>See more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-33712313\" class=\"story-body__link\">CEO Secrets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Video journalist: Hannah Gelbart<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46021670\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Apprentice contestant Frances Bishop doesn\u2019t think higher education is for everyone. In fact, she says dropping out of uni and working behind a bar helped her build the Pud Store, a successful designer childrenswear boutique. She&#8217;s had to think creatively \u2013 she can&#8217;t sell clothes via a website because brands don&#8217;t want discounted stock &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}