{"id":90,"date":"2016-04-20T15:15:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/dev\/tempe\/2016\/04\/20\/y-story-alana-nichols\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T15:15:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:15:53","slug":"y-story-alana-nichols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/2016\/04\/20\/y-story-alana-nichols\/","title":{"rendered":"My Y Story: Alana Nichols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share a little bit about how the YMCA has affected my life.\u00a0 I started going to the YMCA when I was 8 years old.\u00a0 Over the last five years I have created lasting friendships and memories.\u00a0 My two younger sisters have also attended YMCA programs.\u00a0 We were able to enjoy the childcare and camp programs because of the help we received through YMCA scholarships.\u00a0 Without this assistance our mother would not have been able to afford this important part of my life.\u00a0 Although the YMCA has done many things for me, the memories that will always stay with me are our field trips to Amazing Jakes and Castles &amp; Coasters.\u00a0 The YMCA has always made sure that we are safe and having a fun time.\u00a0 Another very important part of my time at the YMCA is\u00a0 the relationships that I created with Tracey Pappas and all the wonderful staff.\u00a0 They have helped me transform into the person I am today.&#8221; &#8211; Alana Nichols<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last five years I have created lasting friendships and memories.  My two younger sisters have also attended YMCA programs.  We were able to enjoy the childcare and camp programs because of the help we received through YMCA scholarships.<\/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":[5,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-member-spolight","category-youth-development"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}