{"id":34,"date":"2007-01-13T07:26:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T12:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/34"},"modified":"2017-07-09T20:38:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T01:38:11","slug":"six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/34","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to introduce a new game called &#8220;Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon.&#8221;  If people like the game and want to play it, I will make it a regular feature on the blog.<\/p>\n<p>You are given a famous person from the past or the present, and you have to connect that person to <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Bacon>Sir Francis Bacon<\/a> in <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org><\/a>Wikipedia in as few links as possible.  <\/p>\n<p>Besides the obvious reason, Francis Bacon is a particularly good choice for this game, as he was an important innovator in a great number of fields, during a time of remarkable transition.  He truly is the Kevin Bacon of history.  Plus, he is a contemporary of Shakespeare, so he&#8217;s relevant to the blog.  Some say that he actually <em>was<\/em> Shakespeare, but that&#8217;s just silliness.  Now, on to the game&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First, read <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon><\/a>the rules of the game.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s challenge will be &#8211; why not &#8211; <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genghis_Khan>Genghis Khan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Entries will be accepted until midnight on Friday, January 19.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to introduce a new game called &#8220;Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon.&#8221; If people like the game and want to play it, I will make it a regular feature on the blog. You are given a famous person from the past or the present, and you have to connect that person to Sir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,44,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authorship","category-genghis-khan","category-six-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","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=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6173,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/6173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}