{"id":254226,"date":"2026-05-01T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254226\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:25:09","slug":"tampa-bay-open-water-swim-launches-may-9-from-spa-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254226\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Open Water Swim launches May 9 from Spa Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 1, 2026 &#8211; Part of the nationwide Swim Across America program, the 14th annual Tampa Bay Open Water Swim will take place Saturday, May 9 off the St. Pete Pier&#8217;s Spa Beach area. A fundraiser for cancer care, the event includes .5 mile, 1 mile or 2 miles swims, along with other options. All information, for potential swimmers, donors or spectators, is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimacrossamerica.org\/site\/TR\/OpenWater\/Tampa?pg=entry&amp;fr_id=8681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on the website<\/a>.<\/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":"May 1, 2026 &#8211; Part of the nationwide Swim Across America program, the 14th annual Tampa Bay Open&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-254226","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\/254226","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=254226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254226\/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=254226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}