{"id":2757,"date":"2026-02-18T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:28:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:28:46","slug":"birthdays-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2757","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta<\/strong> (born Como, Italy, 1745; died Como, Italy, February 18, 1827) developed the voltaic pile, an early battery. The unit of electrical measurement, the volt, is named after him. Idea: Children could find out more about volts and electrical current. They could read more about Volta at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.famousscientists.org\/alessandro-volta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Volta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toni Morrison<\/strong> (born Lorain, Ohio, 1931; died New York, New York, August 5, 2019) was an author. Her books include <em>The Bluest Eye<\/em> and<em> Beloved<\/em>. She received the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 1998 Pulitzer Prize. Older children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenshistory.org\/education-resources\/biographies\/toni-morrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toni Morrison<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (born Como, Italy, 1745; died Como, Italy, February 18, 1827) developed the voltaic pile, an early battery. The unit of electrical measurement, the volt, is named after him. Idea: Children could find out more about volts and electrical current. They could read more about Volta at:\u00a0Volta. Toni Morrison (born <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2757' 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":[5325,6154,5326],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-count-alessandro-giuseppe-antonio-anastasio-volta","tag-february-18-birthdays","tag-toni-morrison","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\/2757","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=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24389,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/24389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}