{"id":284,"date":"2024-08-11T08:39:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T08:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/on-this-day-in-history-may-11-1888-irving-berlin-composer-of-god-bless-america-is-born\/"},"modified":"2024-08-11T08:39:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T08:39:22","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-may-11-1888-irving-berlin-composer-of-god-bless-america-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-history-may-11-1888-irving-berlin-composer-of-god-bless-america-is-born\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in history, May 11, 1888, Irving Berlin, composer of &#8216;God Bless America,&#8217; is born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Irving Berlin, the iconic composer and musician who created American musical standards including &#8220;White Christmas,&#8221; &#8220;Easter Parade,&#8221; &#8220;God Bless America&#8221; and &#8220;There\u2019s No Business Like Show Business,&#8221; was born on this day in history, May 11, 1888.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Berlin was born as Israel Baline in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Temun, Siberia.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His family immigrated to America to escape Russian persecution of the Jewish people when the future music star was a young boy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The family] arrived in New York in 1893, settling in Manhattan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lower East Side<\/a>,&#8221; notes PBS.org.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/this-day-history-may-10-1977-iconic-american-actress-joan-crawford-dies-new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, MAY 10, 1977, ICONIC AMERICAN ACTRESS JOAN&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/day-history-may-11-1888-irving-berlin-composer-god-bless-america-born\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irving Berlin, the iconic composer and musician who created American musical standards including &#8220;White Christmas,&#8221; &#8220;Easter Parade,&#8221; &#8220;God Bless America&#8221; and &#8220;There\u2019s No Business Like Show Business,&#8221; was born on this day in history, May 11, 1888. Berlin was born as Israel Baline in Temun, Siberia.\u00a0 His family immigrated to America to escape Russian persecution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berlinpresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}