{"id":34170,"date":"2017-09-21T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=34170"},"modified":"2017-09-20T16:51:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T21:51:11","slug":"this-day-in-history-birthday-of-stephen-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=34170","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8212; Birthday of Stephen King"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>September 21<\/h3>\n<p>1792<br \/>\nThe French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.<\/p>\n<p>1897<br \/>\nThe New York Sun published its famous editorial, &#8220;Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>1937<br \/>\nThe Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein was first published.<\/p>\n<p>1938<br \/>\nA hurricane struck New York and New England with extensive damage and more than 600 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>1949<br \/>\nThe People&#8217;s Republic of China was proclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>1964<br \/>\nMalta gained its independence from Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>1981<br \/>\nBelize gained its independence from Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>1996<br \/>\nJohn F. Kennedy, Jr., married Carolyn Bessette.<\/p>\n<h3>Birthdays<\/h3>\n<p>Herbert George Wells<\/p>\n<p>(H. G. Wells), 1866\u20131946, English author.<\/p>\n<p>Heike Kamerlingh Onnes<\/p>\n<p>physicist (1853)<\/p>\n<p>Henry Lewis Stimson<\/p>\n<p>statesman (1867)<\/p>\n<p>Larry Hagman<\/p>\n<p>actor (1931)<\/p>\n<p>Stephen King<\/p>\n<p>author (1947)<\/p>\n<p>Bill Murray<\/p>\n<p>actor, screenwriter, comedian (1950)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 21 1792 The French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy. 1897 The New York Sun published its famous editorial, &#8220;Yes, Virginia, there is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[69,106,103,1495,6131],"class_list":["post-34170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tigermedianet","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34171,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34170\/revisions\/34171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}