{"id":3149,"date":"2018-02-13T19:57:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T19:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2018-02-13T19:57:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T19:57:39","slug":"swimming-channel-st-marys-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2018\/02\/13\/swimming-channel-st-marys-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming the Channel for the St Mary&#8217;s pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going for a swim at the St Mary&#8217;s pool after a long day of classes has become something of a ritual for me now that I&#8217;m almost two thirds through my course. There&#8217;s nothing more therapeutic, and it&#8217;s also a bit surreal remembering that Alexander Fleming used to do laps here, as have generations of students since it first opened 80 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t want to see it closing down this July. To save it, I&#8217;ll be swimming 22 miles &#8211; the width of the English Channel &#8211; at St Mary&#8217;s over the next 12 weeks as part of the Diabetes UK Swim22 Challenge. It&#8217;s a chance to show how big a splash our pool can make while raising funds for diabetes care at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>If you can, I&#8217;d love for you to join me. The more of us, the more of an impact we make. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/2026840724311112\/\">Just click here to sign up<\/a> or share our event to help us go the distance. See you in the water!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3150 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/files\/2018\/02\/page-0-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going for a swim at the St Mary&#8217;s pool after a long day of classes has become something of a ritual for me now that I&#8217;m almost two thirds through my course. There&#8217;s nothing more therapeutic, and it&#8217;s also a bit surreal remembering that Alexander Fleming used to do laps here, as have generations of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}