{"id":2146,"date":"2018-09-29T20:48:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T00:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2018-09-29T20:48:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T00:48:03","slug":"swimming-portion-of-ironman-back-on-after-tennessee-river-drained-and-refilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2018\/09\/29\/swimming-portion-of-ironman-back-on-after-tennessee-river-drained-and-refilled\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming portion of Ironman back on after Tennessee River drained and refilled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after Ironman officials\u00a0announced the swimming\u00a0portion of Sunday&#8217;s Chattanooga Ironman was canceled due to strong currents and higher levels of E.\u00a0coli, participants were amazed to hear they would once again take to the water after the Army Corps of Engineers Ironman division\u00a0were able to successfully drain and refill the Tennessee River.<\/p>\n<p>Some competitors were fully prepared to put their lives and health on the line but were fine not having to do that as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was fully ready to be washed away or shit blood for the rest of eternity for a\u00a0free t-shirt\u00a0and bumper sticker&#8221;, said Ironman participant Hans Pantski. &#8220;Not having to do that is cool too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest challenge we faced was locating the stopper we placed at the bottom of the fast flowing river,&#8221; explained Army Corp of Engineers Ironman department spokesman Ray Dankman. &#8220;We were also very fortunate that many residents along the river were gracious enough to lend their garden hoses and water for a faster refill time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after Ironman officials\u00a0announced the swimming\u00a0portion of Sunday&#8217;s Chattanooga Ironman was canceled due to strong currents and higher levels of E.\u00a0coli, participants were amazed to hear they would once again take to the water after the Army Corps of Engineers Ironman division\u00a0were able to successfully drain and refill the Tennessee River. Some competitors were fully prepared to put their lives and health on the line but were fine not having to do that as well. &#8220;I was fully ready to be washed away or shit blood for the rest of eternity for a\u00a0free t-shirt\u00a0and bumper sticker&#8221;, said Ironman participant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}