{"id":207,"date":"2007-05-18T08:16:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T12:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/207"},"modified":"2017-08-14T20:03:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T01:03:01","slug":"six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon-paul-wolfowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/207","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon: Paul Wolfowitz"},"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 disgraced former head of the World Bank <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Wolfowitz\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Wolfowitz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to link Paul Wolfowitz 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 24.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations to Kenneth W. Davis for winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/200\">last week&#8217;s challenge<\/a> by linking <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ken_Jennings\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Jennings<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Bacon\" target=\"_blank\">Sir Francis Bacon<\/a> in three degrees:<\/p>\n<p>Ken Jennings &gt; King Henry VIII &gt; Queen Elizabeth I &gt; Sir Francis Bacon<\/p>\n<p>Ken Jennings was eliminated from <em>Last Man Standing<\/em> by incorrectly answering King Henry VIII, who was the father of Queen Elizabeth I, who reigned during the time of Sir Francis Bacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, read the rules of the game. This week&#8217;s challenge is disgraced former head of the World Bank Paul Wolfowitz. I was able to link Paul Wolfowitz 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 [&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-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-six-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","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=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6255,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/6255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}