{"id":4696,"date":"2026-05-08T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4696"},"modified":"2026-04-29T20:33:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:33:44","slug":"birthdays-190","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4696","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ellen Howard<\/strong> (born New Bern, South Carolina, 1943) writes books for children. Her books include the <em>Log Cabin<\/em> series and <em>The Crimson Cap<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Milton Meltzer<\/strong> (born Worcester, Massachusetts, 1915; died New York, New York, September 19, 2009) wrote about 100 books for children. He received the 2001 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his lifelong contribution to children&#8217;s literature. His books include <em>Piracy and Plunder<\/em> and <em>Bound for America<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 119px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1348420154l\/1661506.jpg\" alt=\"Journey Outside\" width=\"109\" height=\"173\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Journey Outside<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Mary Q. Steele<\/strong> (born Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1922; died Chapel Hill, North Carolina, July 6, 1992) wrote over twenty books for children and adults. Married to author William O. Steele, she stated that she was born an author. Her book <em>Journey Outside<\/em> received a 1970 Newbery Honor Award.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9819\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9819\" class=\"wp-image-9819 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Harry-Truman-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Truman\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Truman<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Harry Truman<\/strong> (born Lamar, Missouri, 1884; died Kansas City, Missouri, December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third president (1945-1953) of the United States. During World War I he served as an artilleryman\u00a0 He was a senator before he was elected vice-president. When Roosevelt died, Truman became president. Some of his actions were to join the United Nations, to accept Germany\u2019s surrender during World War II, and to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. Children could visit a website at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehousehistory.org\/bios\/harry-truman\">Harry S. Truman<\/a>. Truman made an interesting statement. He said, \u201cThe buck stops here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen Howard (born New Bern, South Carolina, 1943) writes books for children. Her books include the Log Cabin series and The Crimson Cap. Milton Meltzer (born Worcester, Massachusetts, 1915; died New York, New York, September 19, 2009) wrote about 100 books for children. He received the 2001 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his lifelong contribution <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4696' 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":[1940,1942,1941,6225,1939],"class_list":["post-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-ellen-howard","tag-harry-truman","tag-mary-q-steele","tag-may-8-birthdays","tag-milton-meltzer","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\/4696","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=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30597,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions\/30597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}