{"id":2619,"date":"2011-11-25T15:32:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T23:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.12sided.com\/blog\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2013-12-02T00:38:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T00:38:07","slug":"thanksgiving-polar-bear-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=2619","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Polar Bear Swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_7929_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Max Effgen Polar Bear Swim\" width=\"460\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_7929_sm.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_7929_sm-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving to all three of my readers! This year, I decided to do a Polar Bear Swim at Golden Gardens in Seattle. This is on the Puget Sound and the water is always cold. Telemetry from a nearby buoy read the water temp as 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The buoy lies. Maybe not. The 30+ mph wind gusts, 40 degree temperature and the icy rain made it feel really cold. This was the coldest I have ever felt in or out of the water.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it was great. Even was asked by someone walking the beach if I lost a bet. &#8220;No, I&#8217;m just crazy.&#8221; I replied.<\/p>\n<p>While Polar Bear Swims are slightly crazy, they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marksdailyapple.com\/cold-water-therapy\/\">can be healthy<\/a>. I will be out there again on January 1. Hope to see you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thanksgiving to all three of my readers! This year, I decided to do a Polar Bear Swim at Golden Gardens in Seattle. This is on the Puget Sound and the water is always cold. Telemetry from a nearby buoy read the water temp as 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The buoy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[214,259,339],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekend-coffee","tag-marks-daily-apple","tag-polar-bear-swim","tag-thanksgiving"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3240,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/3240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}