{"id":250259,"date":"2026-06-01T01:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250259\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T01:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:02:08","slug":"this-day-in-history-walt-whitman-born-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250259\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History: Walt Whitman born in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(WDBJ) &#8211; May 31, 1819: <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Walt Whitman, American poet, journalist, and essayist was born in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">His verse collection Leaves of Grass is a landmark in the history of American literature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Library of Congress holds the world\u2019s largest Walt Whitman manuscript collection, numbering some 20,000 items and including many original notebooks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gray Media, parent company of WDBJ7, is celebrating the upcoming 250th birthday of the United States of America with a year-long look at our country called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/community\/we-the-people\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/community\/we-the-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">We the People<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WDBJ. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WDBJ) &#8211; May 31, 1819: Walt Whitman, American poet, journalist, and essayist was born in New York. His&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56,81746,59673],"class_list":["post-250259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-walt-whitman","tag-we-the-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}