{"id":16354,"date":"2024-01-01T23:52:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T07:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=16354"},"modified":"2024-01-01T23:52:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T07:52:04","slug":"news-years-2024-and-polar-bear-swim-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/news-years-2024-and-polar-bear-swim-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"News Years 2024 And Polar Bear Swim Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy new year everyone and hopefully 2024 brings you a lot of good memories.  One thing that happens usually during the year here in Vancouver is the polar bear swim which I decided to check out.  Although I didn\u2019t take the swim it was fun to see people gathering around and I often heard remarks from people welcoming each other back.  I guess a good thing with this too is it is free for anyone to do anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Money is usually a new year\u2019s resolution for many and this kind of shows there are plenty of activities that are part of a tradition which can provide you with entertainment and socializing environments that doesn\u2019t require you to empty the bank.  Heck, I didn\u2019t even swim but the atmosphere and being able to decide what to do with plenty of options is good enough.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, happy 2024 everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy new year everyone and hopefully 2024 brings you a lot of good memories. One thing that happens usually during the year here in Vancouver is the polar bear swim which I decided to check out. Although I didn\u2019t take the swim it was fun to see people gathering around and I often heard remarks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8550,393],"class_list":["post-16354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-8550","tag-new-years"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/polar-bear.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-4fM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16356,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16354\/revisions\/16356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}