{"id":4667,"date":"2026-05-06T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:34:03","slug":"roger-bannister-was-the-first-person-to-run-a-mile-in-less-than-four-minutes-in-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4667","title":{"rendered":"Roger Bannister Was the First Person to Run a Mile in Less than Four Minutes in 1954"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 118px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/t1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQtCK8tL34EQYBTxRwic7R715G0VfTkHp0jUfxEPVRzxOUdpxD2fw\" alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"169\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger Bannister<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Roger Bannister was the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes in 1954<\/strong>. In Oxford, England, about 3,000 spectators watched the young doctor complete the mile run in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds. His record lasted only 46 days when John Landy ran the mile in 3\u00a0minutes 58 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Bannister was the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes in 1954. In Oxford, England, about 3,000 spectators watched the young doctor complete the mile run in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds. His record lasted only 46 days when John Landy ran the mile in 3\u00a0minutes 58 seconds.<\/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":[5343,237,1910,1907,5521,1909,1908],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5343","tag-england","tag-first-erson-to-run-mile-in-less-than-four-minute","tag-john-landy","tag-may-6","tag-oxford","tag-roger-bannister","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\/4667","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=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22319,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions\/22319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}