{"id":335089,"date":"2025-12-25T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/335089\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:16:08","slug":"swimmers-brave-chilly-conditions-for-lowestoft-christmas-day-dip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/335089\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimmers brave chilly conditions for Lowestoft Christmas Day dip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of swimmers braved chilly winds and choppy seas to take part in one of the few Christmas Day dips that went ahead this year.<\/p>\n

The 46th event in Lowestoft, Suffolk, saw an estimated 300 swimmers, many in fancy dress, charge into the North Sea.<\/p>\n

Many other dips around the UK<\/a>, including two further along the Suffolk coast in Southwold and Felixstowe, were cancelled due to the conditions.<\/p>\n

Donna Taylor, from the Lowestoft event organiser Everyone Active, said: “There was a lovely, friendly atmosphere generated by the participants and those who came down to support them, and our congratulations go to everyone who took part.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of swimmers braved chilly winds and choppy seas to take part in one of the few Christmas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-335089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}