{"id":4200,"date":"2026-04-20T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4200"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:30:28","slug":"birthdays-170","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4200","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Daniel Chester French<\/strong> (born Exeter, New Hampshire, 1850; died Stockbridge, Massachusetts, October 7, 1931) was a famous American sculptor. His most famous works include the <em>Minute Man<\/em> statue in Concord, Massachusetts, and the seated <em>Abraham Lincoln<\/em> in the Lincoln Memorial. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/reform\/jb_reform_chester_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel Chester French<\/a>.\u00a0Children could view several of his artworks at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/toah\/hd\/fren\/hd_fren.htm#slideshow1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Met<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mary Hoffman<\/strong> (born England, 1945) has written over 90 books for children and teenagers. Her books include <i>Troubadour<\/i>\u00a0and <em>The Falconer\u2019s Knot<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joan Miro<\/strong> (born Barcelona, Spain, 1893; died Majorca, Spain, December 25, 1983) was a surrealistic painter. One of his famous works is <em>Dutch<\/em> <em>Interior<\/em>, painted in 1928. Children could view a number of his works at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/art\/artists\/joan-miro-1646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joan Miro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/about\/justice_pictures\/JStevens.jpg\" alt=\"John Paul Stevens, Associate Justice\" width=\"150\" height=\"173\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Paul Stevens<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>John Paul Stevens<\/strong> (born Chicago, Illinois, 1920; died Fort Lauderdale, Florida, July 16, 2019) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court. He was nominated by Gerald Ford in 1975. He retired June 29, 2010. Idea: Children could research the process whereby a person becomes a Supreme Court justice. Is there a term limit for the justices? Should there be a term limit? Children could learn more about him at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/justices\/john_paul_stevens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Paul Stevens<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Chester French (born Exeter, New Hampshire, 1850; died Stockbridge, Massachusetts, October 7, 1931) was a famous American sculptor. His most famous works include the Minute Man statue in Concord, Massachusetts, and the seated Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. Children could learn more at: Daniel Chester French.\u00a0Children could view several of his artworks at: <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4200' 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":[6205,2283,2643,2644,2642],"class_list":["post-4200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-april-20-birthdays","tag-daniel-chester-french","tag-joan-miro","tag-john-paul-stevens","tag-mary-hoffman","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\/4200","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=4200"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30565,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions\/30565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}