{"id":1071,"date":"2016-02-20T15:25:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T20:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2016-02-20T17:26:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T22:26:12","slug":"watch-polar-plunge-draws-25000-participants-raises-1-6m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/02\/watch-polar-plunge-draws-25000-participants-raises-1-6m\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Seaside Heights Polar Plunge Draws Crowd of 25,000, Raises $1.6M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-f90791d5c8dd9557f2093526a7a46178 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Seaside Heights Polar Plunge 2016\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G6_y1-Fcpgs?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The annual Polar Plunge in Seaside Heights, benefitting Special Olympics New Jersey, was one of the most successful events ever, drawing 25,000 onlookers, out of which more than 6,000 plunged, raising $1.6 million in the process, on the way to $1.7 million at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s cold,\u201d one plunger summed it up \u2013 the water, that is. The air temperature hovered from the high 50s to low 60s depending on which way the wind was blowing, and participants suited up in bathing suits and costumes alike. From mermaids, to celebrities, to Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, the costumed masses dove in, trying to make it to a sandbar off the Seaside Heights beachfront.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/02\/watch-polar-plunge-draws-25000-participants-raises-1-6m\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Polar Plunge in Seaside Heights, benefitting Special Olympics New Jersey, was one of the most successful events ever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,14,5],"tags":[351,20,357],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local-life","category-seaside-heights","tag-2016-polar-plunge","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news","tag-special-olympics-new-jersey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-20-at-3.25.04-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-hh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}