{"id":26372,"date":"2018-12-21T05:23:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T05:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26372"},"modified":"2018-12-21T05:23:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T05:23:02","slug":"lululemons-controversial-founder-the-company-is-worse-off-without-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26372","title":{"rendered":"Lululemon&#8217;s controversial founder: The company is worse off without me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>When Chip Wilson went to his first yoga class in 1998 at the age of 42, he noticed that people looked uncomfortable sweating in baggy clothes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;At that time, everyone wore their worst clothing to the gym,&#8221; the controversial Lululemon (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=LULU\" target=\"_blank\">LULU<\/a>) founder told CNN Business&#8217; Vanessa Yurkevich in an interview.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Wilson grew up in Canada and started Westbeach, a surf, skate, and snowboard clothing company. He had experience making clothing for functional activities, and saw an opportunity to move into yoga.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)When Chip Wilson went to his first yoga class in 1998 at the age of 42, he noticed that people looked uncomfortable sweating in baggy clothes.&#8221;At that time, everyone wore their worst clothing to the gym,&#8221; the controversial Lululemon (LULU) founder told CNN Business&#8217; Vanessa Yurkevich in an interview.Wilson grew up in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}