{"id":321,"date":"2007-09-08T08:48:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T12:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/321"},"modified":"2008-09-06T12:23:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T16:23:13","slug":"shakespeare-anagram-king-lear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/321","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Anagram: King Lear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m heading out later this morning to go see <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/02\/theater\/02ridi.html?_r=2&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;adxnnlx=1188738473-r8nouXzF6If9rHgQ0RJv+w&#038;oref=slogin target=_blank>Ian McKellan in <em>King Lear<\/em><\/a>, so perhaps this would be a good day for a Lear-related anagram.  Let&#8217;s see what happens if I rearrange Lear&#8217;s powerful storm monologue into a glib weather forecast.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>King Lear<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!<br \/>\nYou cataracts and hurricanoes, spout<br \/>\nTill you have drench&#8217;d our steeples, drown&#8217;d the cocks!<br \/>\nYou sulphurous and thought-executing fires,<br \/>\nVaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,<br \/>\nSinge my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,<br \/>\nStrike flat the thick rotundity o&#8217; the world!<br \/>\nCrack nature&#8217;s moulds, all germens spill at once<br \/>\nThat make ingrateful man!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Shift around the letters, and it becomes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now, the AccuLuck rundown. AccuLuck has a glacial tornado-threshold unsure storm advisory tomorrow.  We suggest to shun rain and lack hail.  Shut up in a lovely daughter&#8217;s house.  Thursday&#8217;s outlooks have staler luck with a sure percent chance of buckling king madness by lunch, but a likely redemption tilt at night.  Friday, expect cutthroat deaths and restored order in time for the long weekend. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--07b4f9a89b3f4fea9deed28725897705-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--b4dd9aa2ec5e48a879876a268818a399--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m heading out later this morning to go see Ian McKellan in King Lear, so perhaps this would be a good day for a Lear-related anagram. Let&#8217;s see what happens if I rearrange Lear&#8217;s powerful storm monologue into a glib weather forecast. From King Lear: Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,58,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anagram","category-king-lear","category-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}