{"id":37767,"date":"2026-07-15T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=37767"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:20:30","slug":"decatur-pool-to-reopen-with-extended-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/decatur-pool-to-reopen-with-extended-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur pool to reopen with extended hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Decatur&#8217;s city swimming pool will be open for business on Thursday, with the first 400 swimmers being admitted free of charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pool has been closed this week due to a problem with a pump motor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parks Superintendent Cara Gerber said Wednesday that the pool was circulating water at 86 degrees, the pump having been repaired and placed back into service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?resize=640%2C167&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C267&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?resize=300%2C78&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?resize=768%2C200&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?resize=1536%2C401&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pool will have extended hours Thursday, noon to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gerber said the first 400 people through the doors will be admitted without charge, courtesy of ABCinema, ABC Real Estate and Travel, Corey and Barb Affolder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com Decatur&#8217;s city swimming pool will be open for business on Thursday, with the first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-37767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Decatur-pool-2.jpg?fit=2000%2C522&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37769,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37767\/revisions\/37769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}