{"id":135744,"date":"2026-02-17T01:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135744\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:46:09","slug":"plungers-brave-the-rain-to-benefit-special-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135744\/","title":{"rendered":"Plungers brave the rain to benefit Special Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Nathan Gaddie<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan residents braved the rain Saturday to take the plunge for Special Olympics Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>Event coordinator Katelyn Andrist said the Polar Plunge is one of the organization\u2019s biggest fundraisers of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think for people, it is very overwhelming, but you\u2019re jumping in for our athletes,\u201d she said. \u201cYou\u2019re showing them that at the end of the day, we can all be comfortable or uncomfortable together. It\u2019s breaking the ice, literally, of inclusion, of trying to come together and find something that really allows us to just bridge that gap and build community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themercury.com\/news\/plungers-brave-the-rain-to-benefit-special-olympics\/article_eff9736f-6e63-4103-9dd3-1da3b9b4ff39.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">To view the full article visit theMercury.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Nathan Gaddie Manhattan residents braved the rain Saturday to take the plunge for Special Olympics Kansas. Event&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-135744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}