{"id":177,"date":"2012-06-04T13:25:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T03:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/?p=177"},"modified":"2012-06-04T13:25:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T03:55:21","slug":"from-beautician-to-biotechnologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/2012\/06\/04\/from-beautician-to-biotechnologist\/","title":{"rendered":"From Beautician to Biotechnologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vicki Edwards came to University late in life, mostly because she had never considered it as a possibility \u2013 on leaving school in the early 1980s, she went to work in a hairdressing salon.<\/p>\n<p>But following two decades working with electrolysis and looking for a new mental challenge, an advertisement for Flinders University\u2019s Foundation Studies program in the local paper caught her eye.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/flinders-news\/2012\/05\/31\/from-beautician-to-biotechnologist\/\" target=\"_self\">Read more of this inspirational story . . .<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vicki Edwards came to University late in life, mostly because she had never considered it as a possibility \u2013 on leaving school in the early 1980s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}