{"id":3677,"date":"2026-03-30T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:14:41","slug":"birthdays-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3677","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12055\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12055\" class=\"wp-image-12055 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/van-gogh.jpg\" alt=\"Van Gogh Self Portrait\" width=\"190\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Gogh Self Portrait<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Vincent van Gogh<\/strong> (born Groot Zundert, Holland, 1853; died Auvers-sur-Oise, France, July 29, 1890) was an artist. He never received formal training. He often applied the paint with a palette knife. Children can visit the Metropolitan Museum website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/toah\/hd\/gogh\/hd_gogh.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vincent van Gogh<\/a>. Idea: Children\u00a0could compare and contrast the works of Goya and van Gogh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agnes Danforth Hewes<\/strong> (born Tripoli, Lebanon, 1874; died San Francisco, California, September 30, 1963) was a Protestant minister and an author of children&#8217;s books. She earned three Newbery Honor Awards: in 1931 for <em>Spice and the Devil&#8217;s Cave<\/em> (illustrated by Lynd Kendall Ward), in 1934 for <em>Glory of the Seas<\/em> (illustrated by Lynd Kendall Ward), and in 1937 for <em>The Codfish Musket<\/em> (illustrated by Armstrong Sperry).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Francisco Jose de Goya<\/strong> (born Aragon, Spain, 1746; died Bordeaux, France, April 16, 1828) was a Spanish artist. He produced more than 1,800 artworks. Children can visit the Metropolitan Museum website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/toah\/hd\/goya\/hd_goya.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Francisco Jose de Goya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anna Sewell<\/strong> (born Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, 1820; died Catton, Norfolk, England, April 25, 1878) wrote <em>Black Beauty<\/em>. Children can read <em>Black Beauty<\/em> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>. They could also learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/sewell-anna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anna Sewell<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent van Gogh (born Groot Zundert, Holland, 1853; died Auvers-sur-Oise, France, July 29, 1890) was an artist. He never received formal training. He often applied the paint with a palette knife. Children can visit the Metropolitan Museum website at: Vincent van Gogh. Idea: Children\u00a0could compare and contrast the works of Goya and van Gogh. Agnes <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3677' 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":[3627,3626,6190,3625],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-anna-sewell","tag-francisco-jose-de-goya","tag-march-30-birthdays","tag-vincent-van-gogh","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\/3677","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=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29370,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions\/29370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}