{"id":4175,"date":"2026-04-18T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:33:52","slug":"birthdays-169","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4175","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Clarence Darrow<\/strong> (born Kinsman, Ohio, 1857; died Chicago, Illinois, March 13, 1938) was a lawyer. He defended John Scopes in the famous case of creationism versus evolution, sometimes known as \u201cThe Monkey Trial.\u201d That trial was the basis for the play and movie, <em>Inherit the Wind<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitchell Sharmat<\/strong> (born Brookline, Massachusetts, 1927; died Tucson, Arizona, July 25, 2011) wrote books for children. He wrote <em>Gregory, the Terrible Eater<\/em>, and he wrote with his wife, Marjorie Sharmat, the <em>Nate the Great<\/em>\u00a0series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarence Darrow (born Kinsman, Ohio, 1857; died Chicago, Illinois, March 13, 1938) was a lawyer. He defended John Scopes in the famous case of creationism versus evolution, sometimes known as \u201cThe Monkey Trial.\u201d That trial was the basis for the play and movie, Inherit the Wind. Mitchell Sharmat (born Brookline, Massachusetts, 1927; died Tucson, Arizona, <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4175' 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":[6204,2626,2627],"class_list":["post-4175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-april-18-birthdays","tag-clarence-darrow","tag-mitchell-sharmat","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\/4175","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=4175"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21054,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions\/21054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}