{"id":6580,"date":"2026-08-14T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6580"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:42:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:42:41","slug":"birthdays-279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6580","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Julia Child<\/b> (born Pasadena, California, 1912; died Santa Barbara, California, August 13, 2004)) was an author and a television chef. She always concluded her shows with \u201cBon App\u00e9tit!\u201d Her kitchen was donated to the Smithsonian. Children could view a timeline of her life at: <a href=\"http:\/\/juliachildfoundation.org\/timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julia Child<\/a>. Idea: Children could demonstrate to the class how to make simple foods.<\/p>\n<p><b>Gary Larson <\/b>(born Tacoma, Washington, 1950) is a cartoonist. He created <i>The Far Side<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alice Provensen<\/strong> (born Chicago, Illinois, 1918; died San Clemente, California, April 23, 2018) and her husband, Martin Provensen, wrote and illustrated children&#8217;s books. They earned a 1982 Caldecott Honor Award for \u00a0<i>A Visit to William Blake&#8217;s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers.\u00a0<\/i>They also received the 1984 Caldecott Medal for\u00a0<i>The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, July 25, 1909.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Child (born Pasadena, California, 1912; died Santa Barbara, California, August 13, 2004)) was an author and a television chef. She always concluded her shows with \u201cBon App\u00e9tit!\u201d Her kitchen was donated to the Smithsonian. Children could view a timeline of her life at: Julia Child. Idea: Children could demonstrate to the class how to <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6580' 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":[1160,6323,1159,1158],"class_list":["post-6580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-alice-provensen","tag-august-14-birthdays","tag-gary-larson","tag-julia-child","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\/6580","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=6580"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24966,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580\/revisions\/24966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}