{"id":16015,"date":"2014-04-10T01:41:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T08:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16015"},"modified":"2014-04-10T01:42:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T08:42:12","slug":"aquatic-capital-of-america-saves-olympic-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/aquatic-capital-of-america-saves-olympic-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquatic Capital of America Saves Olympic Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/smylee.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos: 93-year-old Olympic Gold Medal Diver Dr. Sammy Lee signs autographs and poses with young divers; Debby McCormick holds the microphone and poses with Gary DeLong<\/p>\n<p>LONG BEACH, CALIF. &#8212; \u00a0The legendary McCormick Divers recently put on a special show to thank Long Beach officials, especially outgoing Councilman Gary DeLong, for their tremendous support.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, when the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool, home to McCormick Divers since 1968, was closed, the Long Beach City Council planned on replacing it with a recreational pool.<\/p>\n<p>But hundreds of Olympic, World and National Champions and other diving enthusiasts insisted that diving must be included. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/long-beach\/olympic-pool.html\">Read more..<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos: 93-year-old Olympic Gold Medal Diver Dr. Sammy Lee signs autographs and poses with young divers; Debby McCormick holds the microphone and poses with Gary DeLong LONG BEACH, CALIF. &#8212; \u00a0The legendary McCormick Divers recently put on a special show to thank Long Beach officials, especially outgoing Councilman Gary DeLong, for their tremendous support. Last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}