{"id":6121,"date":"2019-01-09T00:58:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T00:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/glassblowing-the-young-artist-setting-a-traditional-industry-on-fire\/"},"modified":"2019-01-09T00:58:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T00:58:52","slug":"glassblowing-the-young-artist-setting-a-traditional-industry-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/glassblowing-the-young-artist-setting-a-traditional-industry-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Glassblowing: The young artist setting a traditional industry on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>They say it&#8217;s hard for a young woman to break the glass ceiling, but artist Beth Gates has decided to smash right through it instead. <\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old, from Farnham in Surrey, is one of a very few young, female glassblowers in the UK. <\/p>\n<p>Beth works at a studio in Child Okeford, Dorset, and says peoples&#8217; faces light up when she tells them what she does for a living, especially when she reveals she works with a furnace burning at over 1,000C (1,832F) and burns are just part of the job. <\/p>\n<p><i>She is the first star of <\/i><strong><i>New Dogs. Old Tricks:<\/i><\/strong><i> a series of films by video journalist Ben Moore, who has been meeting the young people shaking up the <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-42441366\" class=\"story-body__link\">UK&#8217;s most traditional industries.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-dorset-46739925\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say it&#8217;s hard for a young woman to break the glass ceiling, but artist Beth Gates has decided to smash right through it instead. The 20-year-old, from Farnham in Surrey, is one of a very few young, female glassblowers in the UK. Beth works at a studio in Child Okeford, Dorset, and says peoples&#8217; &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6121","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\/6121","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=6121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}