{"id":1036,"date":"2014-07-18T09:36:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T09:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2014-07-18T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T09:36:47","slug":"plain-sailing-southampton-business-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/plain-sailing-southampton-business-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Plain sailing at Southampton Business School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lijia Xu, a sailing gold medalist at the London 2012 Olympics, will be joining the Southampton Business School. \u00a0 Lijia has a bachelor degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University, a strategic partner of the University, and will study for an MSc in International Management after her Pre-Master programme which starts in September.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jean Chen<\/strong>, Head of School, explained, &#8220;It is quite unusual for athletes to study abroad whilst still actively representing their country, however I think it is fair to say that Xu saw that we could offer both high quality education and, because of our location, a suitable environment for her to continue training for the next Olympic Games. \u00a0We are looking forward to welcoming her to the Southampton Business School.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lijia Xu, a sailing gold medalist at the London 2012 Olympics, will be joining the Southampton Business School. \u00a0 Lijia has a bachelor degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University, a strategic partner of the University, and will study for an MSc in International Management after her Pre-Master programme which starts in September. Jean Chen, Head of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}