{"id":3362,"date":"2026-03-17T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:51:15","slug":"birthdays-137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3362","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jim Bridger<\/strong> (born Richmond, Virginia, 1804; died near Kansas City, Missouri, July 17, 1881) was a scout and pioneer. He built Fort Bridger in Wyoming as a fur trading post and rest station for settlers traveling on the Oregon Trail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler<\/strong> (born Schorndorf, Kingdom of Wurttenberg, Germany, 1834; died Bad Cannstatt, Kingdom of Wurttenberg, German Empire, March 6, 1900) is known as the \u201cFather of the Automobile.\u201d He invented the internal combustion engine. Idea: Help students discover how a car engine actually works.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ralph Fletcher<\/strong> (born Marshfield, Massachusetts, 1953) writes novels, picture books, and poetry books for children and young adults. His books include <em>Fig Pudding<\/em> and <em>Moving Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kate Greenaway<\/strong> (born London, England, 1846; died London, England, November 6, 1901) wrote and illustrated children\u2019s books. Children can read many of her works at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>. The highly respected Kate Greenaway Medal is given each year to the best-illustrated book published in the United Kingdom. Children could learn more about Kate Greenaway and the Kate Greenaway Medal by consulting the <em>Children\u2019s Book Award Handbook<\/em>, by Diana F. Marks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lilian Moore<\/strong> (born New York, New York, 1909; died Seattle, Washington, July 20, 2004) wrote about 50 poetry books and easy-to-read books for children. Her works included <em>While You Were Chasing a Hat<\/em> and <em>I\u2019ll Meet You at the Cucumbers<\/em>. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/moore-lilian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lilian Moore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Bridger (born Richmond, Virginia, 1804; died near Kansas City, Missouri, July 17, 1881) was a scout and pioneer. He built Fort Bridger in Wyoming as a fur trading post and rest station for settlers traveling on the Oregon Trail. Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (born Schorndorf, Kingdom of Wurttenberg, Germany, 1834; died Bad Cannstatt, Kingdom of <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3362' 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":[3464,3463,3466,6178,6179,3465],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-gottlieb-wilhelm-daimler","tag-jim-bridger","tag-kate-greenaway","tag-lilian-moore","tag-march-17-birthdays","tag-ralph-fletcher","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\/3362","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=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29265,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions\/29265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}