
{"id":22727,"date":"2012-01-05T10:21:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T15:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=22727"},"modified":"2012-01-05T10:25:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T15:25:25","slug":"polar-plunge-lake-lure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/01\/05\/polar-plunge-lake-lure\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar Plunge, Lake Lure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/01\/05\/polar-plunge-lake-lure\/polarplunge1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22733\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PolarPlunge1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"PolarPlunge1\" width=\"600\" height=\"487\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PolarPlunge1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PolarPlunge1-113x91.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PolarPlunge1-139x113.jpg 139w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PolarPlunge1-100x81.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PolarPlunge1-360x292.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_22730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22730\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/01\/05\/polar-plunge-lake-lure\/polarplunge2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22730\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PolarPlunge2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"PolarPlunge2\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PolarPlunge2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PolarPlunge2-113x99.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PolarPlunge2-127x113.jpg 127w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PolarPlunge2-100x88.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Poor White Trash Elvis\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dirty Dorothy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nOf all the crazy ways to celebrate the New Year, throwing yourself into icy waters strikes me as one of the most bizarre. Up near our mountain cabin at Lake Lure in Western North Carolina, they have this tradition on New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day called the Polar Plunge, which annually attracts a motley crew of zanies who dress for the event, including folks in polar bear caps \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s highlight, a self-proclaimed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Poor White Trash Elvis\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in a red bikini, here slapping a high five with his buddy, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dirty Dorothy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ever the intrepid photo-reporter, the 1k Word guy was there to record this defining moment in the history of our civilization. Happy New Year, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the crazy ways to celebrate the New Year, throwing yourself into icy waters strikes me as one of the most bizarre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":22733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22727"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22743,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727\/revisions\/22743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}