{"id":354,"date":"2007-11-02T21:45:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T01:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/354"},"modified":"2008-09-06T12:19:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T16:19:39","slug":"six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon-dan-aykroyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/354","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon: Dan Aykroyd"},"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>I had wanted to use Beldar Conehead this week, to make up for my oversight in <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/353>yesterday&#8217;s riddle<\/a>, but he doesn&#8217;t seem to have a Wikipedia entry.  What kind of world are we living in?  So I guess this week&#8217;s challenge will have to be funnyman <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dan_Aykroyd target=_blank>Dan Aykroyd<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>I was able to link Dan Aykroyd 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, November 8. <\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations to UnixMan1960 for winning <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/348>last week&#8217;s challenge<\/a> by linking <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jessica_Alba target=\"_blank\">Jessica Alba<\/a> to <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Bacon target=\"_blank\">Sir Francis Bacon<\/a> in three degrees:<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Alba > Hugh Hefner > William Shakespeare > Sir Francis Bacon<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Alba settled a lawsuit with Hugh Hefner, who often misquotes William Shakespeare, who is believed by some to be Sir Francis Bacon.<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><!--69d6e2ca6468eec1b0583c054fcd4e03-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--08ec15c142ffabfe073f07da09468df4--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, read the rules of the game. I had wanted to use Beldar Conehead this week, to make up for my oversight in yesterday&#8217;s riddle, but he doesn&#8217;t seem to have a Wikipedia entry. What kind of world are we living in? So I guess this week&#8217;s challenge will have to be funnyman Dan Aykroyd. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-six-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}