{"id":23691,"date":"2016-12-26T23:53:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T07:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23691"},"modified":"2016-12-26T23:53:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T07:53:08","slug":"polar-plunges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/polar-plunges\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold California Polar Plunges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/jillian.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s not cold enough for you, then go ahead and &#8220;break the ice&#8221; during New Year&#8217;s 2017 polar plunges. Pictured are past events in San Pedro, Seal Beach, La Jolla, Venice and Huntington Beach. The biggest, oldest new year&#8217;s celebration is hosted by Cabrillo Beach Polar Bears in San Pedro on January 1, 2017. San Francisco Dolphin Club is a much older swim club\u00a0(founded in 1877) but their annual New Year&#8217;s Day Alcatraz Swim is a qualifying event not open to those who just show up. However, there is a Polar Plunge the public is invited to participate in at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-polar-plunges.html\">2017 list of Polar Plunges, swims &amp; dips\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Some plunges are free, and some charge a fee.<\/li>\n<li>If it rains there&#8217;s a 24-72 hour alert to avoid swimming in the ocean and lakes.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/weather\/california-ocean-temperatures.html\">average temperatures in the Pacific<\/a> range from 52 to 59 degrees.<\/li>\n<li>Costume contests and other fun events are often part of plunge celebrations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s not cold enough for you, then go ahead and &#8220;break the ice&#8221; during New Year&#8217;s 2017 polar plunges. Pictured are past events in San Pedro, Seal Beach, La Jolla, Venice and Huntington Beach. The biggest, oldest new year&#8217;s celebration is hosted by Cabrillo Beach Polar Bears in San Pedro on January 1, 2017. [&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\/23691"}],"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=23691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}