{"id":1181,"date":"2009-01-10T01:45:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T06:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2017-08-19T11:55:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T16:55:56","slug":"shakespeare-anagram-a-midsummer-nights-dream-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1181","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Anagram: A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And thorough this distemperature we see<br \/>\nThe seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts<br \/>\nFall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,<br \/>\nAnd on old Hiems\u2019 thin and icy crown<br \/>\nAn odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds<br \/>\nIs, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer,<br \/>\nThe childing autumn, angry winter, change<br \/>\nTheir wonted liveries, and the mazed world,<br \/>\nBy their increase, now knows not which is which.<br \/>\nAnd this same progeny of evil comes<br \/>\nFrom our debate, from our dissension:<br \/>\nWe are their parents and original.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shift around the letters, and it becomes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A sharp <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/01\/02\/AR2009010202280_pf.html\" target=\"_blank\">column<\/a> in the Washington Post this month, wherein faded global warming is reframed in some depth as a hidden security issue, hit home.<\/p>\n<p>In this column, he described three harsh ways that these few overwhelming horrors can render war: rampant scarcity from hotter, drier lands; renewed open-handed abundance; and fresh issues of common sovereignty, making two geopolitical zones of tension.<\/p>\n<p>We should take this solemn threat to our security seriously, or we&#8217;re finished.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream: And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems\u2019 thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,128,6,65,9,23,3,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anagram","category-climate-change","category-international","category-maps","category-politics","category-science","category-shakespeare","category-the-dream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6381,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/6381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}