{"id":27358,"date":"2021-01-13T10:07:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T15:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=27358"},"modified":"2021-01-13T10:07:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T15:07:24","slug":"on-25-august-1875-captain-matthew-webb-became-the-first-person-to-swim-across-the-english-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=27358","title":{"rendered":"On 25 August 1875 Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matthew_Webb\">Matthew Webb<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On 25 August 1875 Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel. The map of his route shows that tides made his journey much longer than one might expect. Have a read of the short Wikipedia on Webb to learn how he died: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hP0E5s7Kw8\">https:\/\/t.co\/hP0E5s7Kw8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DSJ7yve2O0\">pic.twitter.com\/DSJ7yve2O0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simongerman600\/status\/1344984250496520193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Webb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-histoire","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27359,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27358\/revisions\/27359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}