{"id":3443,"date":"2012-02-12T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T20:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2012-12-19T11:23:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T16:23:42","slug":"polar-plunge-ushers-in-winters-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2012\/02\/polar-plunge-ushers-in-winters-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Arrives for Rochester&#8217;s Polar Plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Polar Plunge at the 2012 Lakeside Winter Celebration.\" rel=\"lightbox-winterFest2012\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-winter-festival-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px 0px 6px 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-winter-festival-01.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"The Polar Plunge at the 2012 Lakeside Winter Celebration.\" width=\"406\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re a snow bunny like me, this winter had been pretty darn cruel until today. Over the past 24 hours Rochester got nearly as much snow as it&#8217;s seen all season\u2014and it landed just in time for the 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofrochester.gov\/wintercelebration\/\" target=\"_new\">Lakeside Winter Celebration <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" width=\"15\" heigth=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a> at Ontario Beach. We weren&#8217;t able to stick around for the wagon rides and the snow sculpting contest, but I did catch the good part\u2014THE POLAR PLUNGE! If you got stuck at home digging out and missed the action, here&#8217;s a short video&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"406\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YTsbB12RB9Y?hl=en&#038;fs=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nOh, and my thermometer says 21\u00b0F\/-6\u00b0C!<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who aren&#8217;t really into all the hoo-hoo-shrinking hullabaloo, there was also plenty of horsies&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"horsies...\" rel=\"lightbox-winterFest2012\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-winter-festival-02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px 0px 6px 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-winter-festival-02.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"horsies...\" width=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>doggies&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"doggies...\" rel=\"lightbox-winterFest2012\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-winter-festival-03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px 0px 6px 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-winter-festival-03.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"doggies...\" width=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and hot-cocoa drinking tikes&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"...and hot-cocoa drinking tikes.\" rel=\"lightbox-winterFest2012\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-winter-festival-04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px 0px 6px 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-winter-festival-04.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"...and hot-cocoa drinking tikes.\" width=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fun for the entire family not to be missed next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a snow bunny like me, this winter had been pretty darn cruel until today. Over the past 24 hours Rochester got nearly as much snow as it&#8217;s seen all season\u2014and it landed just in time for the 2012 Lakeside Winter Celebration at Ontario Beach. We weren&#8217;t able to stick around for the wagon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1573,204,1075],"tags":[1147,1144,1148,1146,53,151,1145],"class_list":["post-3443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rochester-art-culture","category-events","category-video-2","tag-charlotte-beach","tag-lakeside-winter-celebration","tag-ontario-beach-park","tag-polar-plunge","tag-rochester","tag-rochester-ny","tag-winter-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4971,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions\/4971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}