{"id":3522,"date":"2026-03-23T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2026-03-22T23:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:25:23","slug":"birthdays-143","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3522","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eleanor Cameron<\/strong> (born Winnipeg, Canada, 1912; died Monterey, California, October 11, 1996) wrote about twenty books for children. She is most known for <em>The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet<\/em>. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/cameron-eleanor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eleanor Cameron<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fannie Merritt Farmer <\/strong>(born Boston, Massachusetts, 1857; died Boston, Massachusetts, January 15, 1915) was a cooking expert. She standardized measurements so that cooking became much easier. She also wrote the <em>Boston Cooking School Cookbook<\/em>. This book, now known as <em>The Fannie Farmer Cookbook<\/em>, and its revisions have sold approximately four million copies. Children can view her recipes at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/65061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Boston sooking-school cook book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wernher von Braun<\/strong> (born Wirsitz, Germany, 1912; died Alexandria, Virginia, June 16, 1977) headed teams that developed space rockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Cameron (born Winnipeg, Canada, 1912; died Monterey, California, October 11, 1996) wrote about twenty books for children. She is most known for The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet. Children can learn more at:\u00a0Eleanor Cameron. Fannie Merritt Farmer (born Boston, Massachusetts, 1857; died Boston, Massachusetts, January 15, 1915) was a cooking expert. She standardized <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3522' 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":[3531,3532,6184,3533],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-eleanor-cameron","tag-fannie-merritt-farmer","tag-march-23-birthdays","tag-wernher-von-braun","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\/3522","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=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30513,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions\/30513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}