{"id":557,"date":"2026-11-18T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-18T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:50:22","slug":"birthdays-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre<\/strong> (born Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France, 1787; died near Paris, France, July 10, 1851) invented the first useful method of photography, the daguerreotype.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sir William Schwenck Gilbert<\/strong> (born London, England, 1836; died May 29, 1911) was half of the famous Gilbert and Sullivan creative forces. Children could listen to some of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, possibly <em>The Pirates of Penzance<\/em>. They\u00a0could read the operettas at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13836\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13836\" class=\"wp-image-13836\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Alan-Shepard-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Shepard\" width=\"227\" height=\"180\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Shepard<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Alan Shepard<\/strong> (born East Derry, New Hampshire, 1923; died Monterey, California, July 21, 1998) was an astronaut and the first United States citizen to travel in space. In addition, he commanded <em>Apollo 14<\/em> and spent 33 hours on the moon. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/audience\/forstudents\/k-4\/stories\/nasa-knows\/who-was-alan-shepard-k4.html\">Alan Shepard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (born Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France, 1787; died near Paris, France, July 10, 1851) invented the first useful method of photography, the daguerreotype. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (born London, England, 1836; died May 29, 1911) was half of the famous Gilbert and Sullivan creative forces. Children could listen to some of the Gilbert and <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=557' 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":[1894,3950,6030,3951],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-alan-shepard","tag-louis-jacques-mande-daguerre","tag-november-18-birthdays","tag-sir-william-schwenck-gilbert","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\/557","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=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29877,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/29877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}