{"id":4617,"date":"2017-07-22T14:46:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T04:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/?p=4617"},"modified":"2017-07-22T14:46:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T04:46:20","slug":"finding-wonder-30-of-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/finding-wonder-30-of-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Wonder 30 of 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/30_finding_wonder_bondi_beach_ocean_quote_christopher_reeve.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4618 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/30_finding_wonder_bondi_beach_ocean_quote_christopher_reeve.jpg\" alt=\"30_finding_wonder_bondi_beach_ocean_quote_christopher_reeve\" width=\"1596\" height=\"2316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/30_finding_wonder_bondi_beach_ocean_quote_christopher_reeve.jpg 1596w, https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/30_finding_wonder_bondi_beach_ocean_quote_christopher_reeve-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/30_finding_wonder_bondi_beach_ocean_quote_christopher_reeve-768x1114.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/30_finding_wonder_bondi_beach_ocean_quote_christopher_reeve-706x1024.jpg 706w, https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/30_finding_wonder_bondi_beach_ocean_quote_christopher_reeve-300x435.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1596px) 100vw, 1596px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Well I never&#8230;.realised that the pool at Bondi was the worlds only licensed winter swimming club! Here I was just assuming it was the trendy &#8220;insta-worthy&#8221; place to hang out at in Sydney. Has quite the interesting history as quoted directly from their website &#8211; a little Australian history to wonder at for your Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Our Swimming Club dates back to 1929 and owes its origin to the desire of a band of local life savers trying to maintain their fitness during the Winter months.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They formed the Bondi Icebergs Winter Swimming Club, drew up a constitution and elected office bearers. Included in the <\/em>constitution<em> was a rule that to maintain membership it was mandatory that swimmers compete on three Sundays out of four for a period of five years. This rule, known as the \u201c15B rule\u201d still exists and has been the source of much commentary over the years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Bondi Icebergs become licensed in 1960 and the members\u00a0moved from a tin shed into comfortable premises with bar &amp; poker machines. A further update took place in the 1970\u2019s enabling the\u00a0Club to operate on two floors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In 1995 female members were admitted, and in 2002 the Club\u00a0opened their new premises.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Bondi Icebergs is the only licensed Winter Swimming Club in the world.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/icebergs.com.au\/about-us\/heritage\/\">http:\/\/www.icebergs.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/finding-wonder-30-of-100\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1774],"tags":[2046,2044,1781,2045],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/30_finding_wonder_bondi_beach_ocean_quote_christopher_reeve.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4619,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions\/4619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommermelse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}