Today, June 14, some notable people have birthdays. First there is Harriet Beecher-Stowe.<\/p>\n
Born on this day in 1811, Beecher-Stowe probably did more than any other individual, via her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin<\/i>, to make people aware of the horrors of slavery. The runaway popularity of that book helped lead to the abolition of that monstrous institution in the United States.<\/p>\n
Alas, Stowe eventually succumbed to what is now believe to have been Alzheimer’s disease, which was not diagnosed until around 1906 by Alois Alzheimer, who was also born on this day, June 14, in 1864.<\/p>\n
The tragedy of Alzheimer’s disease strikes millions of people. From all evidence, a certain highly placed U.S. official seems to be increasingly in its grip.<\/p>\n
Wait … I know I’m forgetting somebody. What other famous person, worthy of our collective appreciation, was born on June 14?<\/p>\n
Aha, I’ve got it. Happy Birthday Boy George!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today, June 14, some notable people have birthdays. First there is Harriet Beecher-Stowe. Born on this day in 1811, Beecher-Stowe probably did more than any other individual, via her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, to make people aware of the horrors of slavery. The runaway popularity of that book helped lead to the abolition of that … Continue reading “Notable birthdays today”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27566"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27567,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27566\/revisions\/27567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}