{"id":373,"date":"2007-11-30T06:24:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T10:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/373"},"modified":"2008-08-17T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T00:00:13","slug":"six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon-washington-irving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/373","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon: Washington Irving"},"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 Ichabod Crane creator <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_Irving target=_blank>Washington Irving<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>I was able to link Washington Irving 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, December 6. <\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations to Neel Mehta for winning <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/358>the last challenge<\/a> by linking <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Edwards target=_blank>John Edwards<\/a> to <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Bacon target=\"_blank\">Sir Francis Bacon<\/a> in four degrees:<\/p>\n<p>John Edwards > John Kerry > William Shakespeare > Francis Bacon<\/p>\n<p>John Edwards was the running mate of John Kerry, who protested against the administration of 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.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: This game is no longer active. Neel Mehta posted an unbeatable entry: two degrees!\n<\/p>\n<p><!--aec24600260bb7f34182be8336927cf7--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, read the rules of the game. This week&#8217;s challenge is Ichabod Crane creator Washington Irving. I was able to link Washington Irving 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 [&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-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-six-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","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=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}