{"id":7418,"date":"2026-09-28T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7418"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:31:06","slug":"birthdays-319","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7418","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Kate Douglas Wiggin<\/b> (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1856; died Harrow, England, August 24, 1923) established kindergartens in California. However, she is most known for being a children\u2019s author. She wrote at least 40 books, some co-authored with her sister Nora A. Smith, for children. One of her most famous works is <i>Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. <\/i>Children can read many of her books at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>. They can also learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wiggin-kate-douglas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kate Douglas Wiggin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Carol Lynch Williams<\/b> (born Orlando, Florida, 1959) writes books for young adults. Her books include <i>The Haven<\/i> and <i>Pretty Like Us<\/i>. Young adults can visit her website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carollynchwilliams.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carol Lynch Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Douglas Wiggin (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1856; died Harrow, England, August 24, 1923) established kindergartens in California. However, she is most known for being a children\u2019s author. She wrote at least 40 books, some co-authored with her sister Nora A. Smith, for children. One of her most famous works is Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Children <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7418' 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":[1814,1813,6366],"class_list":["post-7418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-carol-lynch-williams","tag-kate-douglas-wiggin","tag-september-28-birthdays","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\/7418","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=7418"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27973,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418\/revisions\/27973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}