{"id":581,"date":"2023-04-05T03:19:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T07:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/?p=581"},"modified":"2025-12-07T12:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T17:26:48","slug":"dinah-shore-winchester-native","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/dinah-shore-winchester-native\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinah Shore, Winchester Native"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4a\/Dinah_Shore_-_promo.jpg\/800px-Dinah_Shore_-_promo.jpg\" alt=\"Dinah Shore from WikiCommons\" width=\"206\" height=\"291&quot;\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\nCelebrity singer and actress Dinah Shore was born Francis &#8220;Fannie&#8221; Rose Shore in Winchester on February 19, 1916.<\/p>\n<p>Frances &#8220;Fanny&#8221; Rose Shore was born on February 29, 1916, to\u00a0Russian-Jewish\u00a0immigrant shopkeepers, Anna (n\u00e9e\u00a0Stein) and Solomon Shore, in\u00a0Winchester, TennesseeShe had an elder sister, eight years her senior, Elizabeth, known as &#8220;Bessie&#8221;. When Fanny was eighteen months old, she was stricken with\u00a0polio (infantile paralysis). The only known treatment was bed rest and sometimes more extreme care if the child was severely compromised. Her mother provided extensive care for her, which included regular therapeutic massage and a strict exercise program. She recovered but sustained a deformed foot and limp. Fanny loved to sing as a small child; her mother, a with operatic aspirations, encouraged her. Her father often took her to his store, where she would perform impromptu songs for the customers.<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dinah_Shore\">Dinah Shore &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrity singer and actress Dinah Shore was born Francis &#8220;Fannie&#8221; Rose Shore in Winchester on February 19, 1916. Frances &#8220;Fanny&#8221; Rose Shore was born on February 29, 1916, to\u00a0Russian-Jewish\u00a0immigrant shopkeepers, Anna (n\u00e9e\u00a0Stein) and Solomon Shore, in\u00a0Winchester, TennesseeShe had an elder sister, eight years her senior, Elizabeth, known as &#8220;Bessie&#8221;. When Fanny was eighteen months old, she was stricken with\u00a0polio (infantile paralysis). The only known treatment was bed rest and sometimes more extreme care if the child was severely compromised. Her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/dinah-shore-winchester-native\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-individuals","category-off-site-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}