{"id":582373,"date":"2026-05-13T20:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582373\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:51:10","slug":"parents-name-newborn-after-attenborough-on-100th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582373\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents name newborn after Attenborough on 100th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said when the couple were younger they would watch Attenborough documentaries, helping to foster their &#8220;love for animals&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The couple had an appointment for Evans to be induced on 7 May, and it was only when labour started that she realised the baby could be born on Sir David&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There had been things going on in some of the local schools. Either people picking up litter and being really active in the community to celebrate his 100th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was like, &#8216;oh, it would be really nice if he was born on the same day as David Attenborough&#8217;s birthday&#8217;,&#8221; Evans said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whyte said the couple had another middle name planned but decided &#8220;on the cuff&#8221; to change it to Attenborough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said when the couple were younger they would watch Attenborough documentaries, helping to foster their &#8220;love for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-582373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}