{"id":4991,"date":"2026-05-28T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:48:55","slug":"birthdays-210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4991","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Debby Atwell<\/strong> (born Providence, Rhode Island, 1953) writes and illustrates books for children. Her books include <em>Barn<\/em> and <em>Pearl<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian Lancaster Fleming<\/strong> (born London, England, 1909; died Canterbury, England, August 12, 1964) was an author. In addition to his James Bond books, he wrote for children. One of his children&#8217;s books is <em>Chitty Chitty Bang Bang<\/em>, published in 1964.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12485\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12485\" class=\"wp-image-12485\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jim-Thorpe-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Thorpe\" width=\"246\" height=\"209\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Thorpe<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>James Francis Thorpe<\/strong> (born Prague, Oklahoma, 1888; died Lomita, California, March 28, 1953) was an Olympic athlete, a baseball player, and a football player. Part-Native American, he was raised on the Sac and Fox Nation in Oklahoma. Controversy surrounded his career as to when he became a professional athlete. Children could read <em>Jim Thorpe, Original All-American<\/em> by Joseph Bruchac.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Johann David Wyss<\/strong> ( born Bern, Switzerland, 1743; died Bern, Switzerland, January 11, 1818) and his family wrote <em>Swiss Family Robinson<\/em>. He also wrote the Swiss national anthem. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wyss-johann-david\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johann Wyss<\/a>. Children can read <em>Swiss Family Robinson<\/em> at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debby Atwell (born Providence, Rhode Island, 1953) writes and illustrates books for children. Her books include Barn and Pearl. Ian Lancaster Fleming (born London, England, 1909; died Canterbury, England, August 12, 1964) was an author. In addition to his James Bond books, he wrote for children. One of his children&#8217;s books is Chitty Chitty Bang <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4991' 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":[2244,2245,2246,2247,6243],"class_list":["post-4991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-debby-atwell","tag-ian-lancaster-fleming","tag-james-francis-thorpe","tag-johann-david-wyss","tag-may-28-birthdays","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\/4991","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=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29515,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions\/29515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}