{"id":605,"date":"2026-11-20T00:20:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-20T05:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=605"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:52:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:52:31","slug":"peregrine-white-was-born-in-1620","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Peregrine White Was Born in 1620"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Peregrine White<\/strong>, born 1620, was the first child of Pilgrims born in the New World. His parents, William and Susanna, chose the name peregrine because it means &#8220;traveler&#8221; or &#8220;pilgrim.&#8221; This meaning of peregrine is very different than the meaning most Americans would have today; a peregrine is a bird of prey. Born on the <em>Mayflower<\/em> anchored off Plymouth Colony, Peregrine had one sibling. His father died in 1621, and his mother married Edward Winslow a short time later. Both his father and stepfather were signers of the Mayflower Compact. Peregrine served in the military, and he was a well respected member of the community. He died on July 20, 1704.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peregrine White, born 1620, was the first child of Pilgrims born in the New World. His parents, William and Susanna, chose the name peregrine because it means &#8220;traveler&#8221; or &#8220;pilgrim.&#8221; This meaning of peregrine is very different than the meaning most Americans would have today; a peregrine is a bird of prey. Born on the <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=605' 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":[5],"tags":[5860,1620,6033,3963,3964],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5860","tag-mayflower","tag-november-20","tag-peregrine-white","tag-plymouth-colony","category-5-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\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11285,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/11285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}