{"id":1102,"date":"2011-10-10T08:12:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T13:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardcitypools.wordpress.com\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2012-06-20T14:15:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T19:15:25","slug":"an-essential-pool-winterizing-accessory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/an-essential-pool-winterizing-accessory\/","title":{"rendered":"An Essential Pool Winterizing Accessory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"8\" width=\"4\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Air Pillows for Winter Pool Covers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Images\/BWP\/Air-pillow-4x8.jpg?resize=4%2C8&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Air Pillow for Swimming Pools\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you live in a climate where winter air temperatures drop below freezing, the first accessory you&#8217;ll need before covering your\u00a0swimming pool with the winter pool cover\u00a0is an air pillow. <strong><a title=\"Air Pillows for Swimming Pools\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/pool-covers-accessories\/BWP-NW152.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Air pillows<\/a><\/strong> absorb the pressure created by freezing water and protect your pool&#8217;s walls and liner. As the water in the pool freezes and expands, it will freeze inward on the air pillow rather than outward on your pool walls.<\/p>\n<p>Air pillows are placed under the winter pool cover on top of the water in the center of the pool. To ensure that the air pillow doesn&#8217;t move out of place over the course of the winter, you&#8217;ll want to use durable string, cord, or twine\u00a0to tie it to two sides of your pool wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in a climate where winter air temperatures drop below freezing, the first accessory you&#8217;ll need before covering your\u00a0swimming pool with the winter pool cover\u00a0is an air pillow. Air pillows absorb the pressure created by freezing water and protect your pool&#8217;s walls and liner. As the water in the pool freezes and expands, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[32,394,398],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pool-accessories","category-pool-closing-and-winterizing","tag-air-pillows","tag-winter-pool-covers","tag-winterizing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2No25-hM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardcitypools.com\/Swimming-Pool-Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}