{"id":512,"date":"2026-11-15T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=512"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:46:29","slug":"512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15222\" style=\"width: 149px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15222\" class=\"wp-image-15222\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Uranus-from-Voyager-2.jpg\" alt=\"Uranus\" width=\"139\" height=\"139\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uranus<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>William Herschel<\/strong> (born Hanover, Germany, 1738; died Slough, England, August 25, 1822) was an astronomer. He discovered Uranus in 1781 and found that it rotated in a direction different from the directions of other planets. He was also active in star astronomy, and he discovered infrared radiation. Older children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/240-years-ago-astronomer-william-herschel-identifies-uranus-as-the-seventh-planet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Herschel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Georgia O\u2019Keefe<\/strong> (born Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, 1887; died Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 6, 1986) was an artist. Her works featured nature, and she often painted objects as if she was looking at something under a magnifying glass. She was married to the photographer Alfred Stieglitz. You can see her home, examine her art materials, and view great online exhibits at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okeeffemuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Georgia O&#8217;Keefe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Pinkwater<\/strong> (born Memphis, Tennessee, 1941) is a children\u2019s author and illustrator. He has published at least 100 books, including <em>Mrs. Noodlekugel<\/em>. One of his latest books is <em>Crazy in Poughkeepsie<\/em>. Children can visit his website where you can hear him read several of his books: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkwater.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel Pinkwater<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Herschel (born Hanover, Germany, 1738; died Slough, England, August 25, 1822) was an astronomer. He discovered Uranus in 1781 and found that it rotated in a direction different from the directions of other planets. He was also active in star astronomy, and he discovered infrared radiation. Older children could learn more at: William Herschel. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=512' 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":[6020,3913,3912,6018,3911],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-birthdays","tag-daniel-pinkwater","tag-georgia-okeefe","tag-november-15","tag-william-herschel","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\/512","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=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30359,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/30359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}