{"id":494,"date":"2009-02-15T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=494"},"modified":"2009-02-09T12:40:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T18:40:03","slug":"happy-birthday-dr-seuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2009\/02\/15\/happy-birthday-dr-seuss\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_495\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-495\" class=\"size-full wp-image-495 \" title=\"seuss-stamp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/seuss-stamp.gif\" alt=\"seuss-stamp\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/seuss-stamp.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/seuss-stamp-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2004 US Stamp honored the imagination of Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Cat in the Hat. Green Eggs and Ham. And to think I saw it on Mulberry Street.\u00a0 Dr. Seuss&#8217;s ABC. Fox in Socks. Horton Hears a Who. If I Ran the zoo. Lorax.<\/p>\n<p>These staples of children&#8217;s literature, created by author\u00a0 Theodor Seuss Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss),\u00a0were created in the mid 1950&#8217;s as a response to concerns about \u00a0literacy in young schoolchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Youngsters can join in a birthday celebration of Dr. Seuss at the W. G. Rhea Public Library in downtown Paris, on Saturdsay, February 28, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here are a few fun facts about Dr. Seuss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-497\" title=\"cat-in-hat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/cat-in-hat.jpg\" alt=\"cat-in-hat\" width=\"99\" height=\"135\" \/>In 1936 on the way to a vaction in Europe,\u00a0 he came up with <strong><cite>And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street<\/cite>,<\/strong> which was rejected by the first 43 publishers he showed it to. Eventually in 1937 a friend published the book for him, and it went on to at least moderate success.<\/li>\n<li>In May of 1954, Life (magazine) published a report concerning illiteracy among school children. The report said, among other things, that children were having trouble to read because their books were boring. This inspired Geisel&#8217;s publisher, and prompted him to send Geisel a list of 400 words he felt were important, asked him to cut the list to 250 words (the publishers idea of how many words at one time a first grader could absorb), and write a book. Nine months later, Geisel, using 220 of the words given to him published <strong><em>The Cat in the Hat, <\/em><\/strong>which went on to instant success.<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-498\" title=\"green-eggs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/green-eggs.jpg\" alt=\"green-eggs\" width=\"113\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/green-eggs.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/green-eggs-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/>In 1960 Bennett Cerf bet Geisel $50 that he couldn&#8217;t write an entire book using only fifty words. The result was <strong><em>Green Eggs and Ham<\/em><\/strong>. Cerf never paid the $50.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>His first wife, Helen Palmer Geisel, died in 1967. Theodor Geisel married Audrey Stone Diamond in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Theodor Seuss Geisel, who was born on March 2,\u00a01904,\u00a0died\u00a0 September 24, 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cat in the Hat. Green Eggs and Ham. And to think I saw it on Mulberry Street.\u00a0 Dr. Seuss&#8217;s ABC. Fox in Socks. Horton Hears a Who. If I Ran the zoo. Lorax. These staples of children&#8217;s literature, created by author\u00a0 Theodor Seuss Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss),\u00a0were created in the mid 1950&#8217;s as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[442,448,443,188,444,440,445,446,450,447,441,439,449],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-7Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}