{"id":1228,"date":"2009-02-14T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2017-08-19T12:01:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T17:01:55","slug":"your-move-shakespeare-anagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1228","title":{"rendered":"Your Move: Shakespeare Anagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Shakespeare Teacher is out. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1223\">your move<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/shakespeare-anagram\">anagram<\/a>\u00a0challenge, I&#8217;ve chosen a passage from <em>Henry IV, Part Two<\/em>. The dying King Henry IV is giving advice to his son Hal, who will soon become King Henry V. He suggests that Hal take his nation to war in a foreign country to distract them from the illegitimacy of his rule.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>Henry IV, Part Two<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Therefore, my Harry,<br \/>\nBe it thy course to busy giddy minds<br \/>\nWith foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out,<br \/>\nMay waste the memory of the former days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shift around the letters, and it becomes&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Entries should use all of the letters in the original quote without adding any. Punctuation may be changed freely, but you may not add numerals or use any punctuation that needs to be pronounced (such as &amp; or @). The best anagrams have some thematic resonance with the original quote. See earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/anagram\">anagrams<\/a> for samples. \u00a0You may find <a href=\"http:\/\/wordsmith.org\/anagram\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> a useful tool along the way, and you can check your final anagram <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anagramgenius.com\/checker.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> before posting.<\/p>\n<p>Entries are due by March 10, and a winner will be chosen after that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shakespeare Teacher is out. It&#8217;s your move. For the anagram\u00a0challenge, I&#8217;ve chosen a passage from Henry IV, Part Two. The dying King Henry IV is giving advice to his son Hal, who will soon become King Henry V. He suggests that Hal take his nation to war in a foreign country to distract them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,113,3,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anagram","category-histories","category-shakespeare","category-your-move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","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=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}