{"id":5315,"date":"2013-08-27T11:43:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T15:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5315"},"modified":"2013-08-27T11:43:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T15:43:14","slug":"powerful-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5315","title":{"rendered":"Powerful women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marissa_Mayer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5316\" alt=\"Marissa_Mayer,_World_Economic_Forum_2013_III\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Marissa_Mayer_World_Economic_Forum_2013_III-190x300.jpg\" width=\"152\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Marissa_Mayer_World_Economic_Forum_2013_III-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Marissa_Mayer_World_Economic_Forum_2013_III.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a>In the last few days, I&#8217;ve been reading about some powerful businesswomen and the stories of their success.<\/p>\n<p>First, I read a somewhat long but rather intriguing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/marissa-mayer-biography-2013-8?op=1\">biography of Yahoo! boss Marissa Mayer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like many, I also wrote off Yahoo! in my mind as one of the has-beens, destined to the scrap heap of Internet history along with other former giants like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Altavista\">Altavista<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lycos\">Lycos<\/a>. But, it appears, Ms. Mayer may be able to turn Yahoo! around, defying the odds. I hope she is successful.<\/p>\n<p>Then on Sunday, CNN&#8217;s Fareed Zakaria <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/today\/post\/article\/20130825214051-204274949-spanx-billionaire-founder-redefines-failure-and-inspires-others?trk=tod-home-art-list-small_1\">interviewed Sara Blakely<\/a>, founder of Spanx, a company with an innovative line of female undergarments.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Blakey is described as the world&#8217;s youngest self-made female billionaire. Hers is the story of a door-to-door fax machine salesman turned entrepreneur who just never took no for an answer. Yet she seemed genuinely down-to-Earth, humble even, when she was interviewed.<\/p>\n<p>The glass ceiling may not be a thing of the past just yet, but these ladies are certainly hastening its demise.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5315' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last few days, I&#8217;ve been reading about some powerful businesswomen and the stories of their success. First, I read a somewhat long but rather intriguing biography of Yahoo! boss Marissa Mayer. Like many, I also wrote off Yahoo! in my mind as one of the has-beens, destined to the scrap heap of Internet <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5315' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5321,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions\/5321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}