{"id":17824,"date":"2019-10-16T19:52:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T23:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17824"},"modified":"2019-10-29T17:40:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T21:40:27","slug":"oxford-athletic-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17824","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Athletic Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17826\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191016_170471.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17826\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191016_170471-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Oxford Athletic Club Medal\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17826\" data-wp-pid=\"17826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191016_170471-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191016_170471-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191016_170471-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191016_170471-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191016_170471-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191016_170471.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oxford Athletic Club Medal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My grandfather and his brother were both Rhodes scholars. My grandfather, the older of the two, was at Exeter College from October, 1907 through July, 1910. His younger brother, Ralph, was at St Johns and received a B.A. degree in 1912 and a B.Sc. degree in 1913. They both competed in athletics, and we have this medal that Ralph won in a competition in 1911. It was for second place in the high jump and his height was 5 feet, 3&#xbd; inches. That wasn&#8217;t close to any sort of record. The world record in 1912 (the first world record in the men&#8217;s high jump was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations) was 6&#8242; 6&#xbe;&#8221;. The current record is 8&#8242; &#xbd;&#8221; (2.45 meters).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandfather and his brother were both Rhodes scholars. My grandfather, the older of the two, was at Exeter College from October, 1907 through July, 1910. His younger brother, Ralph, was at St Johns and received a B.A. degree in 1912 and a B.Sc. degree in 1913. They both competed in athletics, and we have &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17824\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[2069,356,2068],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17827,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17824\/revisions\/17827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}