{"id":9767,"date":"2026-04-23T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=9767"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:23:28","slug":"today-may-be-william-shakespeares-450th-birthday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=9767","title":{"rendered":"William Shakespeare\u2019s Birthday May Be Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14575\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14575\" class=\"wp-image-14575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Shakespeare-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"William Shakespeare\" width=\"186\" height=\"233\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Shakespeare<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>William Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0birthday may be today!<\/strong> Experts believe he was born in Stratford-on-Avon, England, in 1564, and died in Stratford-on-Avon, England, on April 23, 1616. He is one of the most famous poets and playwrights. His works are among the most quoted in the world. He wrote almost forty plays and over 150 sonnets. Famous works include <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em> and <em>Macbeth<\/em>. Children can read many of his works at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0birthday may be today! Experts believe he was born in Stratford-on-Avon, England, in 1564, and died in Stratford-on-Avon, England, on April 23, 1616. He is one of the most famous poets and playwrights. His works are among the most quoted in the world. He wrote almost forty plays and over 150 sonnets. Famous works <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=9767' 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":[5],"tags":[5493,5492,2674,2673,2672],"class_list":["post-9767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5493","tag-april-23","tag-stratford-on-avon","tag-william-shakespeare","tag-william-shakespeares-birthday","category-5-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\/9767","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=9767"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29454,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions\/29454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}