{"id":23134,"date":"2025-09-22T18:22:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=23134"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:22:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:22:27","slug":"swimmers-dive-into-chicago-river-for-first-time-in-nearly-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=23134","title":{"rendered":"Swimmers Dive Into Chicago River for First Time in Nearly a Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Swimmers Dive Into Chicago River for First Time in Nearly a Century<\/p>\n<p>By Chevaz Clarke<span class=\"css-n2v9k\">\u2022<\/span>September 22, 2025<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13qem32\">After decades of efforts to clean up the Chicago River from the loads of industrial and human waste that were routinely dumped in the water, hundreds of swimmers marked the occasion by swimming in the clean water.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Swimmers Dive Into Chicago River for First Time in Nearly a Century By Chevaz Clarke\u2022September 22, 2025 After decades of efforts to clean up the Chicago River from the loads of industrial and human waste that were routinely dumped in the water, hundreds of swimmers marked the occasion by swimming in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[1483,6645,3105,3219,9500,286],"class_list":{"0":"post-23134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-century","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-dive","11":"tag-river","12":"tag-swimmers","13":"tag-time"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}