{"id":2982,"date":"2026-03-01T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2025-12-11T02:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:43:01","slug":"birthdays-121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2982","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Glenn Miller<\/strong> (born Clarinda, Iowa, 1904; disappeared over the English Channel, December 15, 1944) was a bandleader and a composer. His big band sound was especially popular before and during World War II. He was on a flight to Paris to perform for troops when his plane vanished.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donald \u201cDeke\u201d Slayton<\/strong> (born Sparta, Wisconsin, 1924; died League City, Texas, June 13, 1993) was one of the original seven astronauts. A heart condition kept him from traveling in space for some time, and he became chief of flight operations. In 1971 the heart condition disappeared, and he flew on the last <em>Apollo<\/em> mission. His crew docked for the first time with a Soviet <em>Soyuz<\/em> vessel. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/slayton.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deke Slayton<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Miller (born Clarinda, Iowa, 1904; disappeared over the English Channel, December 15, 1944) was a bandleader and a composer. His big band sound was especially popular before and during World War II. He was on a flight to Paris to perform for troops when his plane vanished. Donald \u201cDeke\u201d Slayton (born Sparta, Wisconsin, 1924; <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2982' 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":[2807,2806,6164],"class_list":["post-2982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-donald-deke-slayton","tag-glenn-miller","tag-march-1-birthdays","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\/2982","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=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29192,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions\/29192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}