{"id":345,"date":"2007-10-19T07:23:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T11:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/345"},"modified":"2017-08-14T22:05:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T03:05:58","slug":"six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon-karl-popper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/345","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon: Sir Karl Popper"},"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 science philosopher <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karl_Popper\" target=\"_blank\">Sir Karl Popper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to link Sir Karl Popper 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, October 25.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations to DeLisa for winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/339\">last week&#8217;s challenge<\/a> by linking <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Franklin\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Franklin<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Bacon\" target=\"_blank\">Sir Francis Bacon<\/a> in a record two degrees:<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Franklin &gt; Thomas Jefferson &gt; Sir Francis Bacon<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers along with Thomas Jefferson, who was heavily influenced by Sir Francis Bacon.<\/p>\n<p><!--02160aeb32e07e683ca4b948730bb4d8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, read the rules of the game. This week&#8217;s challenge is science philosopher Sir Karl Popper. I was able to link Sir Karl Popper 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-six-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","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=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6308,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/6308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}