{"id":534,"date":"2017-04-19T07:03:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T13:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2017-03-08T14:05:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T20:05:35","slug":"first-woman-to-run-the-boston-marathon-april-19-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/first-woman-to-run-the-boston-marathon-april-19-1967\/","title":{"rendered":"First woman to run the Boston Marathon, April 19, 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Switzer became the first woman to run as a numbered participant in the Boston Marathon, April 19, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Switzer registered for the race as K.V. Switzer and was given a number, even though women were not invited to run.<\/p>\n<p>When the error was discovered, one official tried to physically force her off the course. But Switzer&#8217;s boyfriend, also running, clobbered the official, sending him flying and they continued.<\/p>\n<p>An unofficial woman runner, Bobbi Gibb, beat Switzer&#8217;s time by an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Women were not officially welcome to the marathon until 1972. Interestingly, the official who pushed Switzer in 1967 was instrumental in making women part of the event in 1972.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Switzer became the first woman to run as a numbered participant in the Boston Marathon, April 19, 1967. Switzer registered for the race as K.V. Switzer and was given a number, even though women were not invited to run. When the error was discovered, one official tried to physically force her off the course. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insurance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insure-us.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}