{"id":127,"date":"2013-04-29T14:10:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T21:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2019-04-12T21:16:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T04:16:19","slug":"richard-branson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Richard Branson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/richard-branson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/richard-branson.jpg\" alt=\"richard branson\" width=\"169\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/richard-branson.jpg 169w, https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/richard-branson-126x150.jpg 126w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>Sir Richard Branson is sending has sent his historic rocket-powered rocket plane beyond the sound barrier and his company Virgin Galactic plans to build a fleet of spaceships and begin ferrying hundreds of tourists into space in 201.\u00a0 The billionaire mogul dropped out of high school at 16.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Branson, who had dyslexia, was a lousy student. He dropped out at 16 to start a magazine. To fund the publication, he also started a mail-order record business; the venture grew into Virgin Records. He took a risk by signing a raucous band called the Sex Pistols, which had already been cut from two other labels. Other hit acts followed, including Boy George and Peter Gabriel.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-313\" src=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-300x62.jpeg\" alt=\"dropout contact\" width=\"300\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-300x62.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-1024x212.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-250x52.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[bigContact form=on phones=on emails=on hours=on map=on]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-living-legends","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-4-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4561,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/4561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}