{"id":59,"date":"2007-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-29T01:38:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T05:38:40","slug":"march-polar-bear-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/2007\/04\/01\/march-polar-bear-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"March Polar Bear Swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/files\/2007\/04\/2297_12065.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/files\/2007\/04\/2297_12065.jpg\" alt=\"Joel Chipping a Hole in the January Ice\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p><strong>After wimping out a couple of months and enduring my short-lived nick-names, of &#8220;Princess&#8221; and &#8220;Sally&#8221; I finally decided to rejoin the Polar Bear Club for March. No matter how I tried to explain my position that I had &#8220;nothing to prove,&#8221; and therefore didn&#8217;t need to jump into the lake through the hole in the ice that Joel had chipped, it always came out sounding really sissy. Oh well, I&#8217;m back into it (now that temperatures have peaked into the 80&#8217;s) and though I may never be as cool as the other Polar Bears, I was readmitted into the club even without having to jump in wearing a skirt and tiara!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Polar Bear Swim Video\" href=\"http:\/\/gallery.mac.com\/brian_pruett#100021\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;&gt;Click here to see the short Video&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the weather warms up we are having to think of new ways to keep the tradition exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shop-talk","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}