{"id":7830,"date":"2026-10-17T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7830"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:10:00","slug":"birthdays-337","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7830","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Jupiter Hammon<\/b> (born probably Long Island, New York, 1711; died circa 1806) was the first African American to publish his poetry. Born into slavery, he learned to read. He published his first poem, \u201cAn Evening Thought,\u201d in 1760. Children can read some of his works at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/jupiter-hammon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/jupiter-hammon\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mae Jemison<\/b> (born Decatur, Alabama, 1956) is a physician and retired astronaut. She is the first African American woman to travel into space. Children could view her TED talk at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/mae_jemison_on_teaching_arts_and_sciences_together.html?quote=483\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mae Jemison<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Arthur Miller<\/b> (born New York, New York, 1915; died Roxbury, Connecticut, February 10, 2005) was a playwright. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949. His works include <i>Death of a Salesman <\/i>and <i>The Crucible.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jupiter Hammon (born probably Long Island, New York, 1711; died circa 1806) was the first African American to publish his poetry. Born into slavery, he learned to read. He published his first poem, \u201cAn Evening Thought,\u201d in 1760. Children can read some of his works at: http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/jupiter-hammon\/. Mae Jemison (born Decatur, Alabama, 1956) is a <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7830' 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":[3082,3081,1553,6373],"class_list":["post-7830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-arthur-miller","tag-jupiter-hammon","tag-mae-jemison","tag-october-17-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\/7830","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=7830"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28073,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions\/28073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}