{"id":63186,"date":"2026-02-28T18:36:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=63186"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:36:51","slug":"2026-polar-plunge-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/02\/28\/2026-polar-plunge-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Polar Plunge Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Guy LaLonde Jr.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Had an absolute blast this morning at Simpson Park for the 2026 Polar Plunge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huge thank you to our incredible Parks & Recreation staff, the lifeguards, and everyone who helped make this FREE community event such a success. You all do an outstanding job creating fun, safe opportunities for Lakeland families to come together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes\u2026 The water was COLD<\/strong>. \"\ud83e\udd76\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m told it\u2019s been colder before\u2026 but let me tell you, it was definitely cold enough for me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s something special about seeing our community show up, laugh together, and jump in headfirst. Moments like this are what make our city strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proud to serve a city that knows how to chill out and dive in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Guy LaLonde Jr.\u00a0 Had an absolute blast this morning at Simpson Park for the 2026 Polar Plunge! Huge thank you to our incredible Parks & Recreation staff, the lifeguards,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"7591","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","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":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDJcLzY0Mzg2NjY1MV8xMDI0MjAwNzI0NjM3ODY3NV80NTUyNTcyMzUxNjY0MTI0OF9uLndlYnA_Zml0PTk2MCUyQzcyMCZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6IjIwMjYgUG9sYXIgUGx1bmdlIFBob3RvcyIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiaGlnaHdheSIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.Ozmtm1sH3F72JSfu88MEj9jekN91n5_KmtWfspSfOVwMQ"},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[7591],"tags":[13856],"class_list":["post-63186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-of-lakeland","tag-2026-polar-plunge-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63193,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63186\/revisions\/63193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}