{"id":6442,"date":"2026-08-06T00:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6442"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:45:35","slug":"gertrude-ederle-swam-the-english-channel-in-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6442","title":{"rendered":"Gertrude Ederle Swam the English Channel in 1926"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10553\" style=\"width: 129px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10553\" class=\"wp-image-10553 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Gertrude-Ederle.jpg\" alt=\"Gertrude Ederle\" width=\"119\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gertrude Ederle<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Gertrude Ederle in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel<\/strong>. She swam for 14 hours 31 minutes from England to France. She returned to a ticker tape parade in New York City. Younger children could read <em>America&#8217;s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle<\/em>, by David A. Adler. At least 45 other people have successfully swum the English Channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gertrude Ederle in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel. She swam for 14 hours 31 minutes from England to France. She returned to a ticker tape parade in New York City. Younger children could read America&#8217;s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle, by David A. Adler. At least 45 other people have successfully <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6442' 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":[4693,5768,237,262,408,995],"class_list":["post-6442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4693","tag-august-6","tag-england","tag-english-channel","tag-france","tag-gertrude-ederle","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\/6442","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=6442"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29608,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions\/29608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}