{"id":2099,"date":"2010-07-01T09:30:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T14:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2010-09-30T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T02:56:00","slug":"thursday-morning-riddle-flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/2099","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Morning Riddle: Flashback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three riddles are recycled, but the single answer is new.<\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m the first in the spectrum that split light creates;<br \/>\nIn the ledger, my presence a loss indicates;<br \/>\nI\u2019m far left in the East, but I\u2019m right in the States;<br \/>\nAnd the Hanrahan prefix in stories by Yeats.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m the fur on a chick; on a chicken, the beak;<br \/>\nI\u2019m routine on a cab; on a sub, I\u2019m unique;<br \/>\nIn my pages, I\u2019m numbered; in news, I\u2019m oblique;<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019m often accused of a cowardly streak.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a grass trimmed for putting; I\u2019m hugging a tree;<br \/>\nI\u2019m a party where some on the left might agree;<br \/>\nI\u2019ve a lack of experience; jealous, I\u2019ll be;<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019ve heard it ain\u2019t easy for frogs being me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who am I?<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Answer provided by Justin.   Riddles solved and alternate answer provided by DeLisa. See comments for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three riddles are recycled, but the single answer is new. I\u2019m the first in the spectrum that split light creates; In the ledger, my presence a loss indicates; I\u2019m far left in the East, but I\u2019m right in the States; And the Hanrahan prefix in stories by Yeats. I\u2019m the fur on a chick; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-riddle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","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=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}