{"id":543580,"date":"2026-03-18T02:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543580\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T02:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:15:12","slug":"why-vancouvers-park-board-is-cutting-lifeguard-staffing-at-some-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543580\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Vancouver&#8217;s park board is cutting lifeguard staffing at some beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 hour ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 10:27<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">On Tuesday, the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation announced that lifeguards would be redeployed from Spanish Banks, Trout Lake, Third Beach and Sunset Beach amid budgetary pressures. Steve Jackson, the board&#8217;s general manager, said the redeployment would allow the board to deliver lifeguarding in the places where it would be more impactful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 hour agoNewsDuration 10:27 On Tuesday, the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation announced that lifeguards would be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-543580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}