{"id":214,"date":"2013-11-05T21:50:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T21:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=214"},"modified":"2024-05-22T15:28:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T15:28:31","slug":"happy-birthday-john-philip-sousa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2013\/11\/05\/happy-birthday-john-philip-sousa\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate John Philip Sousa&#8217;s Birthday on November 6, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music will celebrate John Philip Sousa&#8217;s 159th birthday on November 6, 2013 with a special birthday cookie and an afternoon of Sousa march recordings performed by the U.S. Marine Band.\u00a0 Our celebration honoring America&#8217;s &#8220;March King&#8221; will kick off at 1pm this Wednesday and will continue until the music runs out.\u00a0 Please stop by for a sweet treat and a quick tour of the Center&#8217;s new American Music Month exhibits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/JPS-and-Elizabeth-Trinkhaus-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4397 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/JPS-and-Elizabeth-Trinkhaus-small-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>John Philip Sousa standing with his mother, Elizabeth Trinkhaus Sousa, next to their riding horses, Washington, DC (August 1908).\u00a0 Image from the Paul E. Bierley Papers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Music-School-of-John-Esputa-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4418 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Music-School-of-John-Esputa-small-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Music School of John Esputa, Jr. where John Philip Sousa studied violin as a young boy living in Washington, DC. \u00a0 John Philip Sousa is pictured in back row left\u00a0 (c. 1868).\u00a0 Image from the Paul E. Bierley Papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music will celebrate John Philip Sousa&#8217;s 159th birthday on November 6, 2013 with a special birthday cookie and an afternoon of Sousa march recordings performed by the U.S. Marine Band.\u00a0 Our celebration honoring America&#8217;s &#8220;March King&#8221; will kick off at 1pm this Wednesday and will continue until the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-special-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4516,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/4516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}