{"id":2840,"date":"2026-02-23T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:49:46","slug":"first-mass-inoculations-of-salk-polio-vaccine-took-place-in-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2840","title":{"rendered":"First Mass Inoculations of Salk Polio Vaccine Took Place in 1954"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11899\" style=\"width: 192px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11899\" class=\"wp-image-11899 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Polio-Vaccine-e1745970870944.jpg\" alt=\"Children Waiting for Polio Vaccine\" width=\"182\" height=\"205\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children Waiting for Polio Vaccine<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>First mass inoculations of Salk polio vaccine took place in 1954<\/strong>. Polio was a terrifying disease affecting thousands of children. Jonas Salk\u2019s vaccine brought relief for families around the world. To understand more about polio\u2019s devastation, children can read Peg Kehret\u2019s <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>excellent autobiography<\/strong><\/span>, <em>Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First mass inoculations of Salk polio vaccine took place in 1954. Polio was a terrifying disease affecting thousands of children. Jonas Salk\u2019s vaccine brought relief for families around the world. To understand more about polio\u2019s devastation, children can read Peg Kehret\u2019s excellent autobiography, Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio.<\/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":[5343,4290,4293,4294],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5343","tag-february-23","tag-first-mass-inoculations","tag-salk-polio-vaccine","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\/2840","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=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29970,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/29970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}