{"id":817,"date":"2014-11-03T15:53:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T15:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=817"},"modified":"2024-05-22T19:56:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T19:56:12","slug":"celebrate-sousas-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2014\/11\/03\/celebrate-sousas-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Sousa&#8217;s 160th Birthday with the Sousa Archives Staff on November 6, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4484\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4484\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Sousa-The-March-Past-1024x713-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4484\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Sousa-The-March-Past-1024x713-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Sousa-The-March-Past-1024x713-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Sousa-The-March-Past-1024x713-1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Sousa-The-March-Past-1024x713-1-768x535.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe March Past\u201d by Paul Stahr, 1918. John Philip Sousa and the Great Lakes Navy Band. Paul E. Bierley Papers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music will celebrate John Philip Sousa&#8217;s 160th birthday and his service to the U.S. Navy during WWI starting at noon on November 6, 2014 with an\u00a0 afternoon of listening to historical Sousa Band recordings and recent recordings of the U.S. Marine Band performing the &#8220;March King&#8217;s&#8221; marches.\u00a0 The cutting of a special birthday cake will begin at 1pm and our celebration will continue until the music runs out.\u00a0 So please stop by for a sweet treat and a tour of the Center&#8217;s new American Music Month exhibits created on the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music will celebrate John Philip Sousa&#8217;s 160th birthday and his service to the U.S. Navy during WWI starting at noon on November 6, 2014 with an\u00a0 afternoon of listening to historical Sousa Band recordings and recent recordings of the U.S. Marine Band performing the &#8220;March King&#8217;s&#8221; marches.\u00a0 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-817","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\/817","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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4706,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/4706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}