{"id":945,"date":"2013-06-07T16:46:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T21:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tenmilerivertrader.com\/blog\/?p=945"},"modified":"2013-05-19T18:51:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T23:51:43","slug":"camp-keowa-polar-bear-swim-club-undated-pocket-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tenmilerivertrader.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/camp-keowa-polar-bear-swim-club-undated-pocket-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Keowa Polar Bear Swim Club undated Pocket Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I first became aware of this patch issued by Camp Keowa for its Polar Bear Swim Club in the summer of 2012. Can anyone confirm if this was the first year it was used?<\/p>\n

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Camp Keowa Polar Bear Swim Club undated Pocket Patch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Were there any other issues from Camp Keowa in 2012?<\/p>\n

[phpbay]Camp Keowa, 5[\/phpbay]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I first became aware of this patch issued by Camp Keowa for its Polar Bear Swim Club in the summer of 2012. Can anyone confirm if this was the first year it was used? Were there any other issues from Camp Keowa in 2012? [phpbay]Camp Keowa, 5[\/phpbay]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[101,120],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camp-keowa","tag-101","tag-polar-bear","wpcat-16-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Tidi-ff","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58,"url":"http:\/\/www.tenmilerivertrader.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/23\/camp-keowa-2007-polar-bear-swimmer-keo2007x2\/","url_meta":{"origin":945,"position":0},"title":"Camp Keowa 2007 Polar Bear Swimmer – KEO2007X2","author":"Bill Mulrenin","date":"July 23, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Another new addition for Camp Keowa in 2007 is a patch issued for their Polar Bear Swimmers.\u00c2\u00a0 This is to my knowledge, the first Polar Bear Swim patch for Camp Keowa, at least in the modern era.\u00c2\u00a0 Camp Ranachqua has had a number of Polar BEar patches over the years,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Camp Keowa"","block_context":{"text":"Camp Keowa","link":"http:\/\/www.tenmilerivertrader.com\/blog\/category\/tmr-individual-camps\/camp-keowa\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":942,"url":"http:\/\/www.tenmilerivertrader.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/03\/camp-keowa-2012-pocket-patch\/","url_meta":{"origin":945,"position":1},"title":"Camp Keowa 2012 Pocket Patch","author":"Bill Mulrenin","date":"June 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The patch issued by Camp Keowa for the summer of 2012, was Thunderbird-shaped and included many of the program elements form the camp. 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