{"id":114561,"date":"2016-03-02T12:41:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T10:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=114561"},"modified":"2016-03-02T12:41:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T10:41:33","slug":"celebrating-dr-seuss-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/03\/02\/celebrating-dr-seuss-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Dr Seuss Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We truly love him<br \/>\nIn a house.<br \/>\nWe truly love him<br \/>\nWith a mouse.<br \/>\nWe truly love him<br \/>\nHere or there.<br \/>\nWe truly love him<br \/>\nAnywhere.<br \/>\nWe truly love the silly goose.<br \/>\nWe truly love old Dr Seuss!<\/p>\n<p>March 2 is officially Dr Seuss Day \u2013 a day to honour and embrace the magic that is Dr Seuss.<br \/>\nTheodor Seuss Geisel, better known to the world as Dr Seuss, was born on March 2, 1904, in Massachusetts.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A writer, poet and cartoonist, Dr Seuss wrote and illustrated 44 books for children at the time of his death on September 24, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>He is known for his distinct and zany style which is evident in his works such as, The Cat In A Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and How The Grinch Stole Christmas.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>March 2nd is a celebration of his life and works where people are encouraged to dress up as their favourite Dr Seuss characters or speak in rhymes, a common trait of the legendary man.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Article courtesy of Byron Pillay from the <a href=\"http:\/\/northernnatalcourier.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Natal Courier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='8b84f0a96e08d0b1abd080c5b3606f78'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let your imagination come to life and be different this Dr Seuss Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":114562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[1495,978,1749,5199,10116,972],"class_list":["post-114561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-author","tag-birthday","tag-books","tag-celebrate","tag-dr-seuss","tag-entertainment-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["author","birthday","books","celebrate","Dr Seuss","entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}