{"id":16219,"date":"2017-02-11T11:19:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T19:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=16219"},"modified":"2017-02-11T11:31:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T19:31:57","slug":"takhini-hair-freezing-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2017\/02\/11\/takhini-hair-freezing-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Brrrr!! There&#8217;s a Crazy Hair-Freezing Contest at a Canadian Hot Springs!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At <a href=\"http:\/\/takhinihotpools.com\/\">Takhini Hot Pools<\/a>\u00a0in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory (Northwest Canada), they host a COOL <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takhinihotsprings.com\/hair_freezing\">hair-freezing contest<\/a>! Brave contestants soak in a hot pool of water (roughly 40\u00b0 Celsius\/104\u00b0 Fahrenheit)\u00a0and then dunk their heads under water. When they emerge, the air is so cold (-30\u00b0 Celsius\/-22\u00b0 Fahrenheit) that they can start &#8220;styling&#8221; their icy hair!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LOOK!<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16221\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-1.jpg\" alt=\"Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-1\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16222\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-2.jpg\" alt=\"Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-2\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16223\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-3.jpg\" alt=\"Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-3\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16224\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-4.jpg\" alt=\"Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-4\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16225\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-5.jpg\" alt=\"Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-5\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16226\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-6.jpg\" alt=\"Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-6\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-6.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-6-512x640.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16227\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-7.jpg\" alt=\"Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-7\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16228\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-8.jpg\" alt=\"Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-8\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-8.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-8-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16229\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-9.jpg\" alt=\"Takhini-Hot-Springs-hair-freezing-9\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>images via Takhini&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #999999;\"><a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/108477242561686\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=624578180951587\">Facebook<\/a><\/span>, via <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/thechive.com\/2017\/02\/09\/a-hair-freezing-contest-because-well-canada-11-photos\/?utm_source=facebook_chive&amp;utm_medium=post\">The Chive<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Winners of the International Hair Freezing Contest 2015\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KXtbxYVu6Pw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nWould YOU try it? (They offer cash prizes!!)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Takhini Hot Pools\u00a0in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory (Northwest Canada), they host a COOL hair-freezing contest! Brave contestants soak in a hot pool of water (roughly 40\u00b0 Celsius\/104\u00b0 Fahrenheit)\u00a0and then dunk their heads under water. When they emerge, the air is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16233,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219\/revisions\/16233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}