{"id":16676,"date":"2019-04-29T23:39:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T06:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16676"},"modified":"2019-04-29T23:39:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T06:39:05","slug":"redondo-beach-to-host-international-open-water-swimming-competition-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16676","title":{"rendered":"Redondo Beach to host international open water swimming competition in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Redondo Beach will host an international swimming event in October, drawing more than 1,000 competitors from at least 20 countries. City officials hope the event could serve as a precursor to drawing the open water swimming competition in the 2028 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day event, part of the World Open Water Swimming Association, will take place October 4 and 5 off the avenues in south Redondo Beach, said Steve Munatones, the association\u2019s founder.<\/p>\n<p>Day one will include a symposium on oceans and marine life. Day two will be race-day, with multiple contests of varying distances, including 100-meter, 200-meter, 1,000-meter, 2.5-kilometer and 10-kilometer races.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tncms-region-article_instory_top\" class=\"tncms-region hidden-print\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at Southern California from the perspective of the ocean,\u201d Munatones said this week, \u201cthat Redondo coast is spectacular along the way to Palos Verdes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who swim in the ocean,\u201d he added, \u201cknow that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand met earlier this month with Munatones and Bryce Elser, the open water program manager for USA Swimming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redondo Beach will host an international&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16677,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16676\/revisions\/16677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}