{"id":239541,"date":"2026-04-20T22:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239541\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:18:32","slug":"ultraswimmer-relocates-starting-line-to-johns-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239541\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultraswimmer relocates starting line to John\u2019s Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 20, 2026 &#8211; Ultramarathon swimmer Jessica Kieras has adjusted the starting point of her <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/ultraswimmer-to-attempt-24-hour-gulf-coast-swim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">planned 24-hour Gulf Coast swim<\/a>, relocating it to John\u2019s Pass due to time constraints. The swim, originally set to begin at Pass-a-Grille Beach, will now start between 9 and 10 a.m., April 24. Kieras will still head north along the Gulf Coast in her open-ended endurance effort supporting Save the Manatee Club. The change allows Kieras and her team to stay on schedule while continuing the challenging, record-attempting swim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 20, 2026 &#8211; Ultramarathon swimmer Jessica Kieras has adjusted the starting point of her planned 24-hour Gulf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-239541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}