{"id":573888963,"date":"2016-01-01T20:48:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T02:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573888963"},"modified":"2016-10-23T21:06:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T02:06:01","slug":"happy-new-year-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a polar bear plunge at Tybee Island, Georgia today. We were in nearby Savannah, to celebrate the new year with a few quiet days of doing not much of anything. But The Yankee <em>did<\/em> do the plunge. <\/p>\n<p>These two guys did, too:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" height=800 width=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" height=800 width=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But, wait, there&#8217;s a video:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I Periscoped a polar bear plunge today. Highlights in the video below, full video here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LymmOV6GF6\">https:\/\/t.co\/LymmOV6GF6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xwz0gsqa0H\">pic.twitter.com\/xwz0gsqa0H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; kenny smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/683074944142602240\">January 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was something like 61 degrees in the air and, while the ocean was no doubt a chilly experience, it was hardly polar today. They say it was cooler last year. <\/p>\n<p>From that same Tybee Island beach, about 12 hours earlier, we sat a few hundred yards up the beach from the New Year&#8217;s fireworks:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gu-5XK1Z7BY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I tend to think we remember fireworks a bit differently, with a fuzzy recollection. So I like to shoot them that way. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b6JnG8kW78I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a polar bear plunge at Tybee Island, Georgia today. We were in nearby Savannah, to celebrate the new year with a few quiet days of doing not much of anything. But The Yankee did do the plunge. These two guys did, too: But, wait, there&#8217;s a video: I Periscoped a polar bear plunge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573888963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-friday","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573888963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573888966,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888963\/revisions\/573888966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573888963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573888963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573888963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}