{"id":84,"date":"2016-02-12T20:09:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T20:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/dev\/tempe\/2016\/02\/12\/my-y-story-del-merrill\/"},"modified":"2016-02-12T20:09:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T20:09:50","slug":"my-y-story-del-merrill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/2016\/02\/12\/my-y-story-del-merrill\/","title":{"rendered":"My Y Story: Del Merrill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi my name is Del Merrill, \u00a0I am from the valley and went to school at ASU.\u00a0 I was an athlete on the wrestling team. \u00a0In my mid 40s,\u00a0 I developed diabetes.\u00a0 In 2013 I had a heart attack and lost use of 1\/3 of my heart and almost died.<\/p>\n<p>I came to the Y for the 50+ strength and fitness class which I started in 2011.\u00a0 Bill Wershing developed the class and asked me to assist him back then. I worked at the Q Fitness Center which became 24 Hour Fitness Center before the YMCA was even built.\u00a0 Through the programs with the Q, 24 Hour Fitness and working out at the YMCA I could manage my health better.\u00a0The Y is important because it offers programming and opportunities for all age groups.\u00a0I think it is very valuable for the association to have senior programming, it keeps us point on and working harder as a community, example:\u00a0 pickle ball, nutrition classes, and the Silver Start Strength and Fitness class are all anchors for bringing senior involvement into our YMCA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Y is important because it offers programming and opportunities for all age groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}