{"id":418,"date":"2008-02-23T05:01:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T10:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/418"},"modified":"2017-08-15T13:12:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T18:12:26","slug":"shakespeare-anagram-othello-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/418","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Anagram: Othello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/273\">did this one already<\/a>, but some felt that the O.J. Simpson reference was a cheap shot, so let&#8217;s try another anagram of the same passage.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>Othello<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,<br \/>\nNor set down aught in malice: then, must you speak<br \/>\nOf one that lov&#8217;d not wisely but too well;<br \/>\nOf one not easily jealous, but, being wrought,<br \/>\nPerplex&#8217;d in the extreme;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shift around the letters, and it becomes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Othello&#8217;s wanting absolution, but too bad. Never expunge the element of the fatal. No matter how many times he explains, we will not keep it out.<\/p>\n<p>Is any spoken excuse good enough to justify a murder?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did this one already, but some felt that the O.J. Simpson reference was a cheap shot, so let&#8217;s try another anagram of the same passage. From Othello: Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then, must you speak Of one that lov&#8217;d not wisely but too well; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,125,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anagram","category-othello","category-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6327,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/6327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}