{"id":200,"date":"2007-05-11T14:36:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/200"},"modified":"2017-08-14T19:58:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T00:58:16","slug":"six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon-ken-jennings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/200","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon: Ken Jennings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon\/\">the rules of the game. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s challenge is Jeopardy champion and <em>Brainiac<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ken_Jennings\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Jennings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to link Ken Jennings 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 17.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations to DeLisa for winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/192\">last week&#8217;s challenge<\/a> by linking <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jimmy_Wales\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Wales<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Bacon\" target=\"_blank\">Sir Francis Bacon<\/a> in four degrees:<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Wales &gt; Ayn Rand &gt; Fyodor Dostoevsky &gt; William Shakespeare &gt; Sir Francis Bacon<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Wales is a follower of the Objectivist philosophy developed by Ayn Rand, who was heavily influenced by Fyodor Dostoevsky, who was heavily influenced by William Shakespeare, who is believed by some to be Sir Francis Bacon.<\/p>\n<p><!--337f29c121ec591295fab52a41054e18--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, read the rules of the game. This week&#8217;s challenge is Jeopardy champion and Brainiac Ken Jennings. I was able to link Ken Jennings 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jennings","category-six-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6249,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/6249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}