{"id":27355,"date":"2026-04-19T00:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27355"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:34:09","slug":"boston-marathon-premiered-in-1897","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27355","title":{"rendered":"Boston Marathon Premiered in 1897"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Boston Marathon Premiered in 1897<\/strong>. It was created to honor the 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord. The marathon is the world&#8217;s oldest such race. Fifteen men participated that day, Patriots&#8217; Day. Women unofficially began running in the race in 1966 and officially in 1967. In 1975 the Marathon began a wheelchair divison. Today the race attracts about 30,000 participants and 500,000 spectators. The race is still held on Patriots&#8217; Day, but that day is now the third Monday in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Marathon Premiered in 1897. It was created to honor the 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord. The marathon is the world&#8217;s oldest such race. Fifteen men participated that day, Patriots&#8217; Day. Women unofficially began running in the race in 1966 and officially in 1967. In 1975 the Marathon began a wheelchair divison. Today the <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27355' 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":[5546,5487,6511,6419],"class_list":["post-27355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5546","tag-april-19","tag-boston-marathon","tag-patriots-day","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\/27355","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=27355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27359,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27355\/revisions\/27359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}