{"id":1448,"date":"2009-05-23T15:39:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T20:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2017-08-19T12:32:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T17:32:58","slug":"shakespeare-anagram-the-merchant-of-venice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1448","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Anagram: The Merchant of Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Merchant of Venice<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Go with me to a notary, seal me there<br \/>\nYour single bond; and, in a merry sport,<br \/>\nIf you repay me not on such a day,<br \/>\nIn such a place, such sum or sums as are<br \/>\nExpress\u2019d in the condition, let the forfeit<br \/>\nBe nominated for an equal pound<br \/>\nOf your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken<br \/>\nIn what part of your body pleaseth me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shift around the letters, and it becomes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama&#8217;s Cardholder&#8217;s Bill of Rights may hamper undue predatory lending.<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t cap interest rates, but may end each hidden fee or a funny (or unfunny!) practice to rake your income. <\/p>\n<p>And less opaque info may open the noose of those who offer money at usurious rates.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s still a hoax.  Pay them off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Merchant of Venice: Go with me to a notary, seal me there Your single bond; and, in a merry sport, If you repay me not on such a day, In such a place, such sum or sums as are Express\u2019d in the condition, let the forfeit Be nominated for an equal pound Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,123,9,114,3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anagram","category-merchant-of-venice","category-politics","category-president-obama","category-shakespeare","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","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=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6393,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions\/6393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}