{"id":319,"date":"2007-09-03T20:52:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T00:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/319"},"modified":"2017-08-14T21:55:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T02:55:12","slug":"to-have-my-cake-and-eat-it-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/319","title":{"rendered":"To Have My Cake and Eat It Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I hosted a reading of <em>King Lear<\/em>. It happened to be my birthday, so I wanted to get a cake. But since it was a <em>King Lear<\/em> reading and not a birthday party, I wanted to get a cake that would be <em>King Lear<\/em> appropriate. Here&#8217;s what I came up with:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/Cake3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/Cake3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, my friends have a more traditional sense of birthday practice, and surprised me with a proper birthday cake:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/Cake2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/Cake2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chocolate cake, vanilla cake, friends, and a <em>King Lear<\/em> reading: who could ask for a better birthday?<\/p>\n<p><!--71f8ea8a52a80d76ae55a2f753aa594e--><\/p>\n<p><!--80b0eedbb7b2202daad743e96c82e4ad--><\/p>\n<p><!--e046ef28051ac9ec53d23a5a79659d72--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I hosted a reading of King Lear. It happened to be my birthday, so I wanted to get a cake. But since it was a King Lear reading and not a birthday party, I wanted to get a cake that would be King Lear appropriate. Here&#8217;s what I came up with: Fortunately, my friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,79,56,12,58,2,25,3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthday","category-cake","category-feud","category-humor","category-king-lear","category-meta","category-reading-group","category-shakespeare","category-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","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=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6295,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/6295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}