{"id":6708,"date":"2026-08-23T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2025-12-15T21:40:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:40:27","slug":"6708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6708","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Melvin Berger<\/b> (born Brooklyn, New York, 1927) has written over 200 books for children. His works include <i>Germs Make Me Sick!<\/i> and <i>Is a Dolphin a Fish?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Edgar Lee Masters<\/b> (born Garnett, Kansas, 1869; died Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1950) was a writer. One of his most famous works is <i>Spoon River Anthology, <\/i>which children will find, along with some of his other works, at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry<\/b> (born South Kingston, Rhode Island, 1785; died at sea on August 23, 1819) was a naval commander. During the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813, he stated, \u201cWe have met the enemy, and they are ours.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melvin Berger (born Brooklyn, New York, 1927) has written over 200 books for children. His works include Germs Make Me Sick! and Is a Dolphin a Fish? Edgar Lee Masters (born Garnett, Kansas, 1869; died Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1950) was a writer. One of his most famous works is Spoon River Anthology, which <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6708' 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":[6332,1281,1280,1279],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-august-23-birthdays","tag-commodore-oliver-hazard-perry","tag-edgar-lee-masters","tag-melvin-berger","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\/6708","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=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19961,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions\/19961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}