{"id":44603,"date":"2024-01-08T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rentonnews.us\/life\/photos-location-change-cant-keep-these-ice-bears-down\/"},"modified":"2024-01-08T14:53:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T22:53:01","slug":"photos-location-change-cant-keep-these-ice-bears-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/life\/photos-location-change-cant-keep-these-ice-bears-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Location change can't keep these ice bears down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With an air temperature of 36 degrees and a water temperature of 46 degrees, hundreds braved the frigid pool waters of the Henry Moses Aquatic Center for the city&rsquo;s annual Polar Bear Plunge.<\/p>\n<p>Usually located on the shores of Lake Washington at Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park, the event was moved to the aquatic center after a recent toxic algae bloom popped up in the lake.<\/p>\n<p>This didn&rsquo;t deter local wannabe Polar Bears as several groups took turns running into the cold waters of the pool right at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the bold jump into the cold water, participants could enjoy raffles, photo opportunities, free hot cocoa and free clam chowder.<\/p>\n<p>(Photos by Bailey Jo Josie\/Renton News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 Renton Polar Bear Plunge rings in New Year at the city aquatic center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":44604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44603"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}