{"id":5595,"date":"2026-06-23T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:42:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:42:39","slug":"birthdays-232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5595","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wilma Rudolph<\/strong> (born St. Bethlehem, Tennessee, 1940; died Brentwood, Tennessee, November 12, 1994) was the first American woman to garner three gold medals in one Olympics. She specialized in track events. A polio survivor, Rudolph serves as a model for dedication and hard work. Children could read <em>Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World&#8217;s Fastest Woman<\/em>, by Kathleen Krull.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theodore Taylor<\/strong> (born Statesville, North Carolina, 1924; died Laguna Beach, California, October 26, 2006) wrote at least 50 books for children and young adults. One of his books is <em>The Cay<\/em>, which received the 1970 Jane Addams Book Award. The Edgar Award was presented to him in 1992 for <em>The Weirdo<\/em>. His <em>The Bomb<\/em> earned the 1996 Scott O\u2019Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Children can visit a website devoted to him at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theodoretaylor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theodore Taylor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilma Rudolph (born St. Bethlehem, Tennessee, 1940; died Brentwood, Tennessee, November 12, 1994) was the first American woman to garner three gold medals in one Olympics. She specialized in track events. A polio survivor, Rudolph serves as a model for dedication and hard work. Children could read Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5595' 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":[5655,5651,5654,5653],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-clarence-thomas","tag-june-23","tag-theodore-taylor","tag-wilma-rudolph","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\/5595","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=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24670,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions\/24670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}