{"id":13747,"date":"2026-11-02T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=13747"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:58:02","slug":"cheerleading-started-in-1898","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=13747","title":{"rendered":"Cheerleading Started in 1898"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cheerleading started in 1898<\/strong>. Johnny Campbell, a student at the University of Minnesota, became the college&#8217;s first cheerleader when he led the cheer, &#8220;Rah! Rah! Rah!\u00a0Ski-u-mah! Hoo-rah! Hoo-rah! Varsity! Varsity! Varsity, Minn-e-So-Tah!&#8221; The idea of cheerleading spread, but women did not cheer until 1923. During World War II, as men were drafted into the military, more women became cheerleaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheerleading started in 1898. Johnny Campbell, a student at the University of Minnesota, became the college&#8217;s first cheerleader when he led the cheer, &#8220;Rah! Rah! Rah!\u00a0Ski-u-mah! Hoo-rah! Hoo-rah! Varsity! Varsity! Varsity, Minn-e-So-Tah!&#8221; The idea of cheerleading spread, but women did not cheer until 1923. During World War II, as men were drafted into the military, <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=13747' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4888,3735,3736,5988,3737],"class_list":["post-13747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4888","tag-cheerleading","tag-johnny-campbell","tag-november-2","tag-university-of-minnesota","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23391,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13747\/revisions\/23391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}