{"id":2647,"date":"2017-03-23T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2022-08-22T18:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T17:00:41","slug":"swimming-teacher-of-more-than-four-decades-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=2647","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer swimming teacher who was awarded MBE dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>A swimming teacher who spent more than four decades helping children learn to swim died last month.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2648 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joyce-Andrews-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joyce-Andrews-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/Joyce-Andrews.jpg 686w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Joyce Andrews, of Worcester Park in Surrey, was a volunteer\u00a0at Wimbledon and Merton Swimming Club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">She\u00a0started to teach swimming after the family doctor had recommended the sport to help her daughter&#8217;s asthma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In 2010, Joyce was recognised in the Queen&#8217;s new year honours and awarded an MBE for voluntary service to her club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">She said at the time: &#8220;I accept this award on behalf all the people who have helped along the way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;I think Wimbledon and Merton Swimming Club\u00a0is one of the few clubs where all the teachers are volunteers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a lovely club.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">She leaves behind a son, daughter and grandchildren.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteer swimming teacher who helped children learn to swim for forty years dies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-news","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9105,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions\/9105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}