{"id":4615,"date":"2026-05-01T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:08:12","slug":"birthdays-183","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4615","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 142px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f1\/Calamity_jane.jpeg\/220px-Calamity_jane.jpeg\" alt=\"Calamity jane.jpeg\" width=\"132\" height=\"187\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calamity Jane<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Calamity Jane<\/strong> (born Martha Jane Canary in Princeton, Missouri, 1852; died Terry, South Dakota, August 1, 1903) was a well-known frontier woman, scout, and story teller. Children can read her autobiography, <em>Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane<\/em>, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/search\/?query=calamity+Jane&amp;submit_search=Go%21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Calamity Jane<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14314\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14314\" class=\"wp-image-14314 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/astronauts-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carpenter is the far right person in the first row<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Scott Carpenter<\/strong> (born Boulder, Colorado, 1925; died Denver, Colorado, October 10, 2013) was one of the seven original US astronauts. He was launched into space on May 24, 1962. The fourth American to travel in space, he circled the earth three times. Aboard <em>Aurora 7<\/em>, he conducted five experiments in the five-hour voyage. He was the first astronaut to eat solid food in space. Children could learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronautprofiles\/carpenter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scott Carpenter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingrid Law<\/strong> (born New York State, 1970) writes books for children. <em>Savvy<\/em> received a 2009 Newbery Honor Award, and many children like <em>Scumble<\/em> as well. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingridlaw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ingrid Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calamity Jane (born Martha Jane Canary in Princeton, Missouri, 1852; died Terry, South Dakota, August 1, 1903) was a well-known frontier woman, scout, and story teller. Children can read her autobiography, Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, at Calamity Jane. Scott Carpenter (born Boulder, Colorado, 1925; died Denver, Colorado, October 10, 2013) was one of <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4615' 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":[1856,1858,6220,1857],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-calamity-jane","tag-ingrid-law","tag-may-1-birthdays","tag-scott-carpenter","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\/4615","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=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29309,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions\/29309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}