{"id":1104,"date":"2020-02-20T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T18:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grapevinecountrytours.com\/2025\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2020-02-20T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T18:37:27","slug":"authorized-woman-owned-business-since-2018-started-by-a-woman-in-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grapevinecountrytours.com\/2025\/authorized-woman-owned-business-since-2018-started-by-a-woman-in-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorized Woman Owned Business since 2018, started by a woman in 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started this business with an interest in wine and a bit of desperation after the tragedy of September 11 when the travel industry tanked.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t easy to start from scratch, and there were times that people tried to discourage me from taking the risk, but I forged on.\u00a0 There were difficult years for sure, but the industry welcomed me and I found friends at the wineries and in the tourism community.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t until 2017 that someone encouraged me to apply as a woman owned business.\u00a0 I already considered myself one!<\/p>\n<p>The paperwork was immense, but I finally succeeded!\u00a0 Now I am proud to say that my daughter-in-law, Nicole, has begun to work with me in this fantastic business.\u00a0 Together we are a strong force!\u00a0 We have a lot of fun in all that we do.\u00a0 And I am thankful for all of the support that we get from our wine tour friends.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnie Osborne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this business with an interest in wine and a bit of desperation after the tragedy of September 11 when the travel industry tanked.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t easy to start from scratch, and there were times that people tried to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grapevinecountrytours.com\/2025\/authorized-woman-owned-business-since-2018-started-by-a-woman-in-2002\/\">read more<span class=\"meta-nav\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winery-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevinecountrytours.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevinecountrytours.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevinecountrytours.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevinecountrytours.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevinecountrytours.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevinecountrytours.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevinecountrytours.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevinecountrytours.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevinecountrytours.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevinecountrytours.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}