{"id":565,"date":"2026-11-18T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-18T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:49:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:49:55","slug":"565","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"William Tell Shot an Apple from His Son\u2019s Head in 1307"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14595 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Apple-150x150-e1745120789554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>William Tell shot the famous apple from his son\u2019s head in 1307<\/strong>. According to legend, Tell, an excellent Swiss marksman, had angered the local leader. The leader arrested Tell but said that if the latter could shoot an apple off the top of his son\u2019s head, he could go free. Tell was successful, but a series of further adventures occurred before he and his son were really free. Children could read several versions of this story at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>. Children could also have an accuracy contest, but not with arrows and apples and heads. They could aim paper airplanes at a target.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Tell shot the famous apple from his son\u2019s head in 1307. According to legend, Tell, an excellent Swiss marksman, had angered the local leader. The leader arrested Tell but said that if the latter could shoot an apple off the top of his son\u2019s head, he could go free. Tell was successful, but a <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=565' 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":[6029,3940,3942,3939],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-6029","tag-apple","tag-november-18","tag-william-tell","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\/565","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=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29874,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/29874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}