{"id":2075,"date":"2026-01-24T00:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T05:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:47:04","slug":"birthdays-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2075","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 112px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1236009973l\/3945741.jpg\" alt=\"The Great Quest\" width=\"102\" height=\"154\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Quest<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Charles Boardman Hawes<\/strong> (born Clifton Springs, New York, 1889; died Springfield, Massachusetts, July 16, 1923) wrote children\u2019s books. His book <em>The Great Quest<\/em> received a 1922 Newbery Honor Award. The 1924 Newbery Medal was awarded posthumously to him for <em>The Dark Frigate.<\/em> Children can read <em>The Great Quest<\/em> at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mary Lou Retton<\/strong> (born Fairmont, West Virginia, 1968) is an Olympic gold medal winner in gymnastics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maria Tallchief<\/strong> (born Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief in Fairfax, Oklahoma, 1925; died Chicago, Illinois, April 11, 2013) was America&#8217;s first prima ballerina. A member of the Osage tribe, she originally studied to be a pianist. She established the Chicago City Ballet in 1979. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenshistory.org\/education-resources\/biographies\/maria-tallchief\">Maria Tallchief<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Boardman Hawes (born Clifton Springs, New York, 1889; died Springfield, Massachusetts, July 16, 1923) wrote children\u2019s books. His book The Great Quest received a 1922 Newbery Honor Award. The 1924 Newbery Medal was awarded posthumously to him for The Dark Frigate. Children can read The Great Quest at:\u00a0http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/. Mary Lou Retton (born Fairmont, West <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2075' 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":[4],"tags":[5132,6131,5134,5133],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-charles-boardman-hawes","tag-january-24-birthdays","tag-maria-tallchief","tag-mary-lou-retton","category-4-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\/2075","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=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29056,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions\/29056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}