{"id":109315,"date":"2014-09-05T11:37:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T18:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=109315"},"modified":"2014-09-05T11:52:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T18:52:51","slug":"amy-van-dyken-rouen-visits-today-show-discusses-spirituality-and-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/amy-van-dyken-rouen-visits-today-show-discusses-spirituality-and-return-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Van Dyken-Rouen Visits &#8220;Today&#8221; Show, Discusses Spirituality and Return Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, New York, September 5. AMY Van Dyken-Rouen is set to return to her home in Scottsdale, Ariz., for the first time since the June 6 accident that severed her spine and rendered her paralyzed from the waist down. 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She recently took steps with the help of a mechanized brace on her legs but said in the \u201cToday\u201d interview that she wants to run a marathon with her brother.<\/p>\n<p>Watch her interview with Lauer, accompanied by her husband Tom Rouen, in the video player below (courtesy NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Today&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"326\" id=\"msnbc76304b\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=55992724&amp;width=560&amp;height=326\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 560px;\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\">breaking news<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/3032507\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">world news<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/3032072\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, New York, September 5. 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