{"id":96,"date":"2018-06-18T19:20:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T19:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/dev\/tempe\/2018\/06\/18\/y-member-spotlight-grace-ruby\/"},"modified":"2018-06-18T19:20:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T19:20:28","slug":"y-member-spotlight-grace-ruby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/2018\/06\/18\/y-member-spotlight-grace-ruby\/","title":{"rendered":"Y Member Spotlight: Gracy Ruby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Ruby is turning 95 in just a few months and has been a member for over 10 years! Her sister encouraged her to join over ten years ago, by saying to her, &#8220;you have to keep moving!&#8221;. In Grace\u2019s early life, she was a fashion designer and a seamstress. Grace is still fashionable to this day, even at The <a href=\"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/\" title=\"learn more about the y\">Y<\/a>! Grace also is a cancer survivor, of both Breast &amp; Ovarian Cancer.\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; background: white;\">&#8220;Wouldn\u2019t everyone want to be healthy? I tell you, it\u2019s a lot better than being lethargic,&#8221;Grace Ruby Said.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0In 2014, Grace won a national award for overcoming her adversity! The Richard L. Swanson Inspiration Award from Silver Sneakers for maintaining a healthy, active lifestyle and inspiring others through exercise to improve their quality of life. This award was given out to ONE person in the country, and all of her peers &amp; Y staff supported her by voting online! 2-3 times a year, the whole class goes out and has breakfast after their class. Grace said her class is a real community! We love seeing Grace\u2019s smile around the Y every week!<\/p>\n<h3>Grace Ruby&#8217;s Award<\/h3>\n<p>Click the link below the see the video of our Silver Sneaker\u2019s Class and the spotlight on Grace Ruby.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.silversneakers.com\/swanson-award\/grace-ruby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.silversneakers.com\/swanson-award\/grace-ruby\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I\u2019ve been given a new lease on life,&#8221; said Grace Ruby of her award. &#8220;Without all the people in my class, this wouldn\u2019t have happened.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace is turning 95 in just a few months and has been a member for over 10 years! Her sister encouraged her to join over ten years ago, by saying to her, &#8220;you have to keep moving!&#8221;<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-member-spolight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/tempe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}