{"id":1444,"date":"2009-05-22T06:09:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T11:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2017-08-19T12:43:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T17:43:09","slug":"the-eighth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1444","title":{"rendered":"The Eighth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The invitation rhyme I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1438\">posted<\/a> a couple of days ago got a good reaction, so I&#8217;d like to share with you another invitation rhyme.  I wrote this one as an invitation to a reading of <em>Henry VIII<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<h3>The Eighth<\/h3>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The First hailed from Normandy, only to wreck it.<br \/>\nThe Second one quarreled with Thomas of Beckett.<br \/>\nThe Third one ascended to power at nine.<br \/>\nThe Fourth was the first of the Lancaster line.<br \/>\nThe Fifth one conducted a martial romance.<br \/>\nHe married his queen after seizing her France.<br \/>\nThe Sixth lost the War of the Roses, the fool.<br \/>\nThe Seventh ignited a new Tudor rule.<\/p>\n<p>But do you recall\u2026<br \/>\nThe most infamous Henry of all\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The invitation rhyme I posted a couple of days ago got a good reaction, so I&#8217;d like to share with you another invitation rhyme. I wrote this one as an invitation to a reading of Henry VIII. Enjoy! The Eighth The First hailed from Normandy, only to wreck it. The Second one quarreled with Thomas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,4,95,25,3,119,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-histories","category-history","category-poetry","category-reading-group","category-shakespeare","category-plantagenets","category-the-tudors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","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=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4636,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/4636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}