{"id":5537,"date":"2026-06-19T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5537"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:12:35","slug":"birthdays-230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5537","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12510\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12510\" class=\"wp-image-12510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Lou-Gehrig-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"192\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That&#8217;s Lou Gehrig Sliding into Home Plate!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Lou Gehrig<\/strong> (born Henry Louis Gehrig in New York, New York, 1903; died New York, New York, June 2, 1941) was a baseball legend. He appeared in seven World Series. He died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which has become known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease. Children could read <em>Lou Gehrig: Iron Horse of Baseball<\/em> by James Buckley, Jr.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 133px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTte0VRFWsXNQ23_LVtVHS2qgk7QnTUjrnnSecF6THTJ5gMIVab\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"129\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blaise Pascal<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Pascal<\/strong> (born Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1623; died Paris, France, August 19, 1662) was a mathematician, a physicist, and a philosopher. At age sixteen he had developed Pascal\u2019s Theorem. In 1642 he invented the first adding machine. Along with Pierre de Fermat, he developed the mathematics of probability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elvira Woodruff<\/strong> (born Raritan, New Jersey, 1951) has written at least 25 books for children. Her books include <em>George Washington\u2019s Socks<\/em> and <em>Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail<\/em>. Children can visit her\u00a0website: <a href=\"http:\/\/ewoodruff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/ewoodruff.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lou Gehrig (born Henry Louis Gehrig in New York, New York, 1903; died New York, New York, June 2, 1941) was a baseball legend. He appeared in seven World Series. He died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which has become known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease. Children could read Lou Gehrig: Iron Horse of Baseball by James <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5537' 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":[362,6274,305,361],"class_list":["post-5537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-elvira-woodruff","tag-june-19-birthdays","tag-lou-gehrig","tag-pascal","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\/5537","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=5537"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26527,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5537\/revisions\/26527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}