{"id":167600,"date":"2025-06-08T12:45:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T12:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167600\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T12:45:25","slug":"it-taught-me-a-lot-about-grit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167600\/","title":{"rendered":"It taught me a lot about grit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t2025 U.S. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS<\/p>\n<p>After her week concluded, <a class=\"auto-link-tag\" title=\"Regan Smith Bio\" href=\"https:\/\/swimswam.com\/bio\/regan-smith\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Regan Smith<\/strong><\/a> reiterated to the media that for her, this year has been about \u201ctaking a big fat mental break\u201d. She also reiterated that she is extremely competitive.<\/p>\n<p>Smith wasn\u2019t as dominant as she may be used to being on the domestic stage, but the 2x Olympian did qualify for 4 individual events for the upcoming world championships, a feat she\u2019s never accomplished before.<\/p>\n<p>At moments throughout the week when the world record holder could have been disappointed with her performances, Smith had to remind herself that she\u2019s still getting back into the swing of things after a much-needed break post-Paris. After all, it\u2019s 2025, not 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025 U.S. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS After her week concluded, Regan Smith reiterated to the media that for her, this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[36205,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-167600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-regan-smith","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-us","11":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114647815150297712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}