{"id":4946,"date":"2026-05-25T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4946"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:32:53","slug":"national-tap-dance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4946","title":{"rendered":"National Tap Dance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>National Tap Dance Day is held on the birthday of Bill \u201cBojangles\u201d Robinson<\/strong>. Robinson was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1878. He started his dancing career in vaudeville. He opened on Broadway in 1927. Robinson appeared in several movies with Shirley Temple, including <em>The Littlest Rebel<\/em> and <em>The Little Colonel<\/em>. He died in New York, New York, on November 25, 1949.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Tap Dance Day is held on the birthday of Bill \u201cBojangles\u201d Robinson. Robinson was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1878. He started his dancing career in vaudeville. He opened on Broadway in 1927. Robinson appeared in several movies with Shirley Temple, including The Littlest Rebel and The Little Colonel. He died in New York, <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4946' 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":[5],"tags":[4928,2197,5575,2196],"class_list":["post-4946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4928","tag-bill-bojangles-robinson","tag-may-25","tag-national-tap-dance-day","category-5-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\/4946","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=4946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4947,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions\/4947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}