{"id":192,"date":"2007-05-04T05:57:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T09:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/192"},"modified":"2017-08-14T19:44:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T00:44:32","slug":"six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon-jimmy-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/192","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon: Jimmy Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to bring back an older feature called &#8220;Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon.&#8221;  If people like the game and want to play it, I will continue to post it weekly.<\/p>\n<p>You are given a famous person from the past or the present, and you have to connect that person to <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Bacon>Sir Francis Bacon<\/a> in <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org><\/a>Wikipedia in as few links as possible.  <\/p>\n<p>First, read <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon><\/a>the rules of the game.  <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been talking a lot about Wikipedia lately, so this week&#8217;s challenge will be its founder, the outlaw <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jimmy_Wales target=_blank>Jimmy Wales<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>I was able to link Jimmy Wales to Sir Francis Bacon in six degrees or fewer, though that shouldn&#8217;t stop you from posting a longer response, or looking for a shorter one. Entries will be accepted until midnight on Thursday, May 10. <\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><!--82b28c0cb448de214649ffe008c15f43-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--95f471ada361f9221993481c0763e9b1--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to bring back an older feature called &#8220;Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon.&#8221; If people like the game and want to play it, I will continue to post it weekly. You are given a famous person from the past or the present, and you have to connect that person to Sir Francis Bacon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-six-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","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=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6246,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/6246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}