{"id":29624,"date":"2016-09-28T12:22:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T12:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=29624"},"modified":"2016-09-28T12:27:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T12:27:31","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I worked from the age of ten<br \/>\nPaper round milk round bakers round and coalman<br \/>\nThen when I was 15 got a job in an office<br \/>\nOf a food and wine merchants in Eastcheap.<br \/>\nI had wanted to leave school and write slogans and poetry<br \/>\nBut there were no opening at that time<br \/>\nI studied shipping law and contract and commercial law<br \/>\nAnd opened my own import agency for toy importers<\/p>\n<p>I started to study Chinese Mandarin and visited China<br \/>\nMalaysia Taiwan and other Chinese speaking places<br \/>\nI joined Toastmasters and studied public speaking<br \/>\nAnd reached the DTM standard of distinguished toastmaster<br \/>\nIn 1981 I opened a shop and restaurant and ran it till 2010<br \/>\nWinning the queens award and many other awards.<br \/>\nWas a training champion and won green business of the year<br \/>\nI joined the soil association to act as a consultant on the prime committee<br \/>\nWhich was for me food processing and all its woes and fought off many corporate ideas to relegate organic food to a lower importance<\/p>\n<p>I was always interested in earth magic feng shui and studied a while with a Rosicrucian master Professor De Goya<\/p>\n<p>I had a subsidiary business selling occult books for about about 5 years<br \/>\nAnd we organised a meeting of like minds weekly on premises<\/p>\n<p>I am now a baby witch and a baby Druid<br \/>\nPoetry has figured in my life from as soon as I could write at 5 years old<\/p>\n<p>To have met you all and to be accepted into the order has made me a happier bunny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked from the age of ten Paper round milk round bakers round and coalman Then when I was 15 got a job in an office Of a food and wine merchants in Eastcheap. I had wanted to leave school &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/09\/bio\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29628,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29624\/revisions\/29628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}