{"id":7986,"date":"2026-10-29T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:48:52","slug":"birthdays-349","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7986","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Daniel Decatur Emmett<\/strong> (born Mount Vernon, Ohio, 1815; died Mount Vernon, Ohio, June 28, 1904) wrote the words and music of <i>Dixie. <\/i>Idea: Children\u00a0could play <i>Dixie<\/i> on tissue paper-covered combs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Valerie Worth<\/strong> (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1933; died Clinton, New York, July 31, 1994) wrote poetry and fiction for children. Her books include <i>Fox Hill<\/i> and <i>Small Poems<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Decatur Emmett (born Mount Vernon, Ohio, 1815; died Mount Vernon, Ohio, June 28, 1904) wrote the words and music of Dixie. Idea: Children\u00a0could play Dixie on tissue paper-covered combs. Valerie Worth (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1933; died Clinton, New York, July 31, 1994) wrote poetry and fiction for children. Her books include Fox Hill and <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7986' 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":[3230,5980,3231],"class_list":["post-7986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-daniel-decatur-emmett","tag-october-29-birthdays","tag-valerie-worth","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\/7986","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=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21428,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions\/21428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}