{"id":23273,"date":"2010-02-02T10:01:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/uncategorized\/2010\/02\/passages-wave-ymcas-jon-brenner\/"},"modified":"2014-07-28T17:12:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T00:12:05","slug":"passages-wave-ymcas-jon-brenner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-wave-ymcas-jon-brenner\/","title":{"rendered":"Passages: WAVE YMCA&#8217;s Jon Brenner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA CROSSE, Wisconsin, February 2. 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