{"id":24818,"date":"2017-12-27T14:08:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T22:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24818"},"modified":"2017-12-27T14:08:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T22:08:19","slug":"california-polar-bear-plunges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-polar-bear-plunges\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold as Ice at California Polar Bear Plunges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/botrock.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From Redding to Rancho Cordova, Cayucos to San Pedro, thrill and chill-seekers are polar-plunging into the new year. Babes in parents&#8217; arms to centenarians all encounter cold shock, a condition that occurs when the body is immersed in icy waters. Research found that it takes as few as five immersions in icy water for the body to develop a tolerance that can reduce the risk of cold-shock response by half. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/health\/polar-plunge.html\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-polar-plunges.html\">2018 Polar Bear Plunges<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Bakersfield Polar Plunge<br \/>\nBethel Island Frozen Bun Run<br \/>\nCayucos Polar Plunge<br \/>\nHuntington Beach Surf City Splash<br \/>\nLa Jolla Polar Plunge<br \/>\nRancho Cordova Polar Bear Plunge<br \/>\nRedding Polar Bear Plunge<br \/>\nSacramento Polar Bear Plunge<br \/>\nSan Francisco Polar Bear Plunge<br \/>\nVenice Beach Penguin Club Swim<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special Olympics Polar Plunges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aptos<br \/>\nBig Bear Lake<br \/>\nBodega Bay<br \/>\nFort Bragg<br \/>\nLake County<br \/>\nLake Shastina<br \/>\nLake Tulloch<br \/>\nSacramento<br \/>\nSan Diego<br \/>\nSan Francisco<br \/>\nSanta Barbara<br \/>\nSouth Lake Tahoe<br \/>\nUkiah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Redding to Rancho Cordova, Cayucos to San Pedro, thrill and chill-seekers are polar-plunging into the new year. Babes in parents&#8217; arms to centenarians all encounter cold shock, a condition that occurs when the body is immersed in icy waters. Research found that it takes as few as five immersions in icy water for the [&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\/24818"}],"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=24818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}