{"id":6497,"date":"2026-08-09T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6497"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:52:10","slug":"jesse-owens-won-four-gold-medals-in-1936-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6497","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Owens Won Four Gold Medals in 1936 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13095\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13095\" class=\"wp-image-13095\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jesse-Owens-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jesse Owens\" width=\"206\" height=\"254\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesse Owens<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Jesse Owens won the last of his four gold medals in the 1936 Olympic Games<\/strong>. On August 3 he won the 100 meter sprint. On August 4 he won the long jump competition. On August 5 he finished first in the 200 meter sprint, and on August 9 he was part of the 4 X 100 sprint relay that came in first. Children could read <em>You Should Meet Jesse Owens<\/em>, written by Laurie Calkhoven and illustrated by Elizabet Vulkovik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Owens won the last of his four gold medals in the 1936 Olympic Games. On August 3 he won the 100 meter sprint. On August 4 he won the long jump competition. On August 5 he finished first in the 200 meter sprint, and on August 9 he was part of the 4 X <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6497' 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":[5224,1073,1063,1072],"class_list":["post-6497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5224","tag-1936-olympics","tag-august-9","tag-jesse-owens","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\/6497","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=6497"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25250,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions\/25250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}