{"id":1565,"date":"2009-07-04T23:11:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T04:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2017-08-21T12:13:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:13:27","slug":"shakespeare-anagram-richard-ii-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/1565","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Anagram: Richard II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Richard II:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ay, no; no, ay; for I must nothing be;<br \/>\nTherefore no no, for I resign to thee.<br \/>\nNow mark me how I will undo myself:<br \/>\nI give this heavy weight from off my head,<br \/>\nAnd this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,<br \/>\nThe pride of kingly sway from out my heart;<br \/>\nWith mine own tears I wash away my balm,<br \/>\nWith mine own hands I give away my crown,<br \/>\nWith mine own tongue deny my sacred state,<br \/>\nWith mine own breath release all duteous rites:<br \/>\nAll pomp and majesty I do forswear;<br \/>\nMy manors, rents, revenues, I forego;<br \/>\nMy acts, decrees, and statutes I deny:<br \/>\nGod pardon all oaths that are broke to me!<br \/>\nGod keep all vows unbroke are made to thee!<br \/>\nMake me, that nothing have, with nothing griev\u2019d,<br \/>\nAnd thou with all pleas\u2019d, that hast all achiev\u2019d!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shift around the letters, and it becomes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSarah Palin idly leaving as Governor of newly-widowed green Alaska for no apparent reason makes little sense.  If she runs for President, it won&#8217;t win votes, and this tough woman has more ambition than that.  <\/p>\n<p>What was the real reason?  To save face over impending ethics idiocy?  Did an enemy&#8217;s muddy-eyed blackmail jimmy her out?  Do the kids want their mommy more?  Or was she moved over the Letterman thing more than it seemed?  Why would a &#8220;my way or the highway&#8221; leader modify to go for the highway?<\/p>\n<p>My augury: maybe we will find her the host of a hip new talk show on that right-wing cable news network.  Running a state must be a dull toy compared to the fame and fortune of television.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Richard II: Ay, no; no, ay; for I must nothing be; Therefore no no, for I resign to thee. Now mark me how I will undo myself: I give this heavy weight from off my head, And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand, The pride of kingly sway from out my heart; With mine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,49,113,41,9,15,3,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anagram","category-fox-news","category-histories","category-information-literacy","category-politics","category-predictions","category-shakespeare","category-plantagenets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","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=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}