{"id":8444,"date":"2017-02-21T18:17:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T18:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/pittsburgh\/then-and-now-lilly-bryan\/"},"modified":"2017-02-21T18:17:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T18:17:10","slug":"then-and-now-lilly-bryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/pittsburgh\/then-and-now-lilly-bryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Then and Now: Lilly Bryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet\u00a0<strong>Lilly Bryan<\/strong>, a swimmer from our Robinson location.\u00a0 Lilly was 3 \u00bd years old when she started Minnow.\u00a0 Now she just turned 5 and is a Shark 1.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11058 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/admin.britishswimschool.com\/app\/..\/uploads\/2019\/10\/lilly-bryan-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Lilly Bryan swim montage\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Then<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>When you began, what was your swimming goal?<\/em>\u00a0It\u2019s a tie:\u00a0 Not having to wear a life vest at the pool and beating her brother and sister in a swimming race.<\/p>\n<p><em>What is your first swimming memory?<\/em>\u00a0 Being so excited on her first day and learning to float!<\/p>\n<p><em>What was your instructor\u2019s name?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ryan<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Now<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>What is your swimming goal today?\u00a0<\/em>To learn how to do Butterfly with perfect dolphin kicks.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you could swim anywhere, where would it be?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>The wave pool at Disney World.<\/p>\n<p><em>Would you like to teach others how to swim?<\/em>\u00a0 No, I want to be a Scientist but I will send my kids to the British Swim School.<\/p>\n<p><em>What is the most valuable lesson swimming has taught you?\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0How to save myself if I would accidentally fall in the bathtub, pool or ocean.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>From Lilly\u2019s mom<\/u><\/strong>: \u201cWe are very happy with Lilly\u2019s experience at BSS.\u00a0 Her teachers have been very nice and she has learned so much in such a short time.\u00a0 Whenever we were at a public pool this summer, at least one parent would ask where she learned to swim because she looks so small going off the diving board and swimming in the deep water.\u00a0 Lilly has had some challenges since starting BSS with reoccurring ear infections, pneumonia and stitches in her chin but she has still made great progress!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet\u00a0Lilly Bryan, a swimmer from our Robinson location.\u00a0 Lilly was 3 \u00bd years old when she started Minnow.\u00a0 Now she just turned 5 and is a Shark 1. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishswimschool.com\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}