{"id":18925,"date":"2015-01-27T19:07:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T03:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18925"},"modified":"2015-01-27T19:07:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T03:07:03","slug":"pacific-pole-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/pacific-pole-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Pole Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/danlapo.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the\u00a0pole dance went mainstream several years ago, gyms, party\u00a0vans, and all kinds of places equipped their facilities with this &#8220;must have&#8221; amenity. Gymnasts and professional dancers have found the pole adds another dimension to their workouts, and some former athletes credit the pole dance with luring them out of retirement. It&#8217;s hard to say for certain what kind of shelf life this\u00a0sport will have. Last year an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/sports\/pole-dancing.html\">effort by pole dancers<\/a> to get the sport sanctioned for the 2016 Olympic Games was underway. This year pole dancing championships are taking place\u00a0throughout\u00a0the U.S. with the Pacific Pole Championships happening Feb. 28-March 1, 2015, public invited to this ticketed event. \u00a0Finalists from contests in the Central, South, Atlantic, Northwest\u00a0and Pacific regions compete in Los Angeles for the U.S. National Pole Championships Nov. 7-8. \u00a0See polesportorganization.com for tickets and info!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the\u00a0pole dance went mainstream several years ago, gyms, party\u00a0vans, and all kinds of places equipped their facilities with this &#8220;must have&#8221; amenity. Gymnasts and professional dancers have found the pole adds another dimension to their workouts, and some former athletes credit the pole dance with luring them out of retirement. It&#8217;s hard to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/18925"}],"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=18925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}