{"id":6620,"date":"2026-08-17T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6620"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:44:21","slug":"birthdays-282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6620","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Davy Crockett<\/b> (born Hawkins County, Tennessee, 1786; died at the Alamo, March 6, 1836) was an adventurer and a frontier fighter. He represented the state of Tennessee in the House of Representatives from March 4, 1833 to March 4, 1835. Idea: Children could make a timeline of Davy Crockett\u2019s life. Older children could read his autobiography, <em>A Narrative of the Life of Davy Crockett, of the State of Tennessee<\/em>, at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Myra Cohn Livingston<\/b> (born Omaha, Nebraska, 1926; died Los Angeles, California, August 23, 1996) wrote books of poetry for children. Her works include <i>Celebrations<\/i> and <i>Sky Songs<\/i>. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/livingston-myra-cohn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Myra Cohn Livingston<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Geneva Grace Stratton-Porter<\/b> (born near Wabash, Indiana, 1863; died Los Angeles, California, December 6, 1924) wrote books for children. She also wrote articles for magazines, and she was one of the first woman movie producers. Her books include <i>Keeper of the Bees<\/i> and <i>A Girl of the Limberlost<\/i>. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/stratton-porter-gene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Geneva Grace Stratton-Porter<\/a>.\u00a0Children can read many of her works at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davy Crockett (born Hawkins County, Tennessee, 1786; died at the Alamo, March 6, 1836) was an adventurer and a frontier fighter. He represented the state of Tennessee in the House of Representatives from March 4, 1833 to March 4, 1835. Idea: Children could make a timeline of Davy Crockett\u2019s life. Older children could read his <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6620' 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":[6326,1200,1202,1201],"class_list":["post-6620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-august-17-birthdays","tag-davy-crockett","tag-geneva-grace-stratton-porter","tag-myra-cohn-livingston","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\/6620","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=6620"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24980,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620\/revisions\/24980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}