{"id":2844,"date":"2026-02-23T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:49:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:49:53","slug":"birthdays-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2844","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>C. S. Adler<\/strong> (born Long Island, New York, 1932) has written 44 books for children. Her books include<em> The Magic of the Glit<\/em>s and <em>No Place Cat<\/em>. Children can visit her website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-s-adler.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">C. S. Adler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>W. E. B. Du Bois<\/strong> (born Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 1868; died Accra, Ghana, August 27, 1963) was a famous African American leader striving for equality. A professor, activist, and author, he was one of the co-founders of the NAACP. Children can read many of his works at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>. Also, children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/aa\/dubois\/aa_dubois_subj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">W. E. B. Du Bois<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>George Frederick Handel<\/strong> (born Halle, Saxony, Germany, 1685; died London, England, April 14, 1759) was a composer of Baroque music. One of his best known works is <em>Messiah<\/em>, first performed in 1742.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Walter Wick<\/strong> (born Hartford, Connecticut, 1953) is a photographer and author of children\u2019s books. He is most known for his <em>I Spy<\/em> series and his <em>Can You See What I See?<\/em> series. Children can visit his <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>fascinating<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walterwick.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walter Wick<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C. S. Adler (born Long Island, New York, 1932) has written 44 books for children. Her books include The Magic of the Glits and No Place Cat. Children can visit her website at: C. S. Adler. W. E. B. Du Bois (born Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 1868; died Accra, Ghana, August 27, 1963) was a famous <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2844' 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":[4297,6159,4299,4298,4300],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-c-s-adler","tag-february-23-birthdays","tag-george-frederick-handel","tag-w-e-b-du-bois","tag-walter-wick","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\/2844","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=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22000,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions\/22000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}