{"id":358,"date":"2007-11-09T21:17:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T01:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/358"},"modified":"2008-09-06T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T16:19:09","slug":"six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon-john-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/358","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon: John Edwards"},"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 presidential hopeful <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Edwards target=_blank>John Edwards<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>I was able to link John Edwards 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 15. <\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations to UnixMan for winning <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/354>last week&#8217;s challenge<\/a> by linking <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dan_Aykroyd target=_blank>Dan Aykroyd<\/a> to <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Bacon target=\"_blank\">Sir Francis Bacon<\/a> in three degrees:<\/p>\n<p>Dan Aykroyd > Richard Nixon > William Shakespeare > Francis Bacon<\/p>\n<p>Dan Aykroyd appeared on <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> impersonating Richard Nixon, who in high school showed a penchant for the writings of William Shakespeare, who is believed by some to be Sir Francis Bacon.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--fd71e63ed411a02482a60e0142159576--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, read the rules of the game. This week&#8217;s challenge is presidential hopeful John Edwards. I was able to link John Edwards 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, [&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-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-six-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","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=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6798,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/6798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}