{"id":6474,"date":"2026-08-08T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6474"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:49:46","slug":"birthdays-273","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6474","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 161px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/81\/Matthew_Henson_1910.jpg\/215px-Matthew_Henson_1910.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"167\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew A. Henson<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Matthew A. Henson<\/b> (born Charles County, Maryland, 1866; died New York, New York, March 9, 1955) was an African-American explorer. He was hired to be Robert E. Peary\u2019s valet. The two explored the Arctic region. He described his adventures in <i>A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. <\/i>Children can read the book at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings<\/b> (born Washington, DC, 1896; died Saint Augustine, Florida, December 14, 1953) wrote at least eleven books and at least twenty short stories for children. Her book <em>The Yearling <\/em>received the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and <em>The Secret River<\/em> earned a 1956 Newbery Honor Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew A. Henson (born Charles County, Maryland, 1866; died New York, New York, March 9, 1955) was an African-American explorer. He was hired to be Robert E. Peary\u2019s valet. The two explored the Arctic region. He described his adventures in A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. Children can read the book at: Project Gutenberg. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6474' 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":[1061,1060],"class_list":["post-6474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-marjorie-kinnan-rawlings","tag-matthew-a-henson","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\/6474","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=6474"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30165,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions\/30165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}