{"id":214,"date":"2007-05-25T20:23:05","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T00:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/214"},"modified":"2017-08-14T20:02:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T01:02:27","slug":"six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon-august-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/214","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon: August Wilson"},"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 Pulizer Prize-winning playwright <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_Wilson\" target=\"_blank\">August Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to link August Wilson 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 31.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations to DeLisa for winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/207\">last week&#8217;s challenge<\/a> by linking <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Wolfowitz\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Wolfowitz<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Bacon\" target=\"_blank\">Sir Francis Bacon<\/a> in three degrees:<\/p>\n<p>Paul Wolfowitz &gt; Richard Nixon &gt; William Shakespeare &gt; Sir Francis Bacon<\/p>\n<p>Paul Wolfowitz worked for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency under President Richard Nixon, who in high school showed a penchant for the writings of William Shakespeare, who is believed by some to be Sir Francis Bacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, read the rules of the game. This week&#8217;s challenge is Pulizer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson. I was able to link August Wilson 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 [&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-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-six-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","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=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6251,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/6251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}