{"id":339,"date":"2007-10-12T07:05:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T11:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/339"},"modified":"2017-08-14T22:01:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T03:01:28","slug":"six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon-benjamin-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/339","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon: Benjamin Franklin"},"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, according to the Firesign Theatre, the only U.S. President never to be a U.S. President. It&#8217;s Founding Father and polymath <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Franklin\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Franklin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to link Benjamin Franklin to Sir Francis Bacon in fewer than six degrees, 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, October 18.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: This game is no longer active. DeLisa posted an unbeatable entry: two degrees!<\/p>\n<p><!--4939526bab52e479f38f25abf6e8d462--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, read the rules of the game. This week&#8217;s challenge is, according to the Firesign Theatre, the only U.S. President never to be a U.S. President. It&#8217;s Founding Father and polymath Benjamin Franklin. I was able to link Benjamin Franklin to Sir Francis Bacon in fewer than six degrees, though that shouldn&#8217;t stop you from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-six-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","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=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6302,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/6302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}