{"id":7092,"date":"2026-09-04T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7092"},"modified":"2025-12-16T19:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:23:16","slug":"birthdays-296","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7092","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Syd Hoff<\/strong> (born New York, New York, 1912; died Miami Beach, Florida, May 12, 2004) was a children\u2019s book author and illustrator. One of his books is <i>Danny and the Dinosaur<\/i>. Children could visit a website devoted to him at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydhoff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Syd Hoff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 126px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/2e\/Polk_sarah.jpg\/194px-Polk_sarah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"144\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Childress Polk<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sarah Childress Polk<\/strong> (born Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 1803; died Nashville, Tennessee, August 14, 1891) was America&#8217;s First Lady from March 4, 1845 to March 4, 1849. She was the wife of James Polk, eleventh president of the United States. She was a very active First Lady, serving as her husband\u2019s secretary. Children could visit a website at: <a href=\"https:\/\/firstladies.org\/home\/first-ladies\/sarah-polk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Childress Polk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syd Hoff (born New York, New York, 1912; died Miami Beach, Florida, May 12, 2004) was a children\u2019s book author and illustrator. One of his books is Danny and the Dinosaur. Children could visit a website devoted to him at: Syd Hoff. Sarah Childress Polk (born Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 1803; died Nashville, Tennessee, August 14, 1891) <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7092' 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":[1451,6343,1450],"class_list":["post-7092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-sarah-childress-polk","tag-september-4-birthdays","tag-syd-hoff","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\/7092","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=7092"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29682,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7092\/revisions\/29682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}