{"id":435,"date":"2008-03-21T17:29:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T21:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/435"},"modified":"2011-04-20T17:44:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T22:44:32","slug":"shakespeare-anagram-measure-for-measure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/435","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Anagram: Measure for Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Measure for Measure<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He, who the sword of heaven will bear<br \/>\nShould be as holy as severe;<br \/>\nPattern in himself to know,<br \/>\nGrace to stand, and virtue go;<br \/>\nMore nor less to others paying<br \/>\nThan by self offences weighing.<br \/>\nShame to him whose cruel striking<br \/>\nKills for faults of his own liking!<br \/>\nTwice treble shame on Angelo,<br \/>\nTo weed my vice and let his grow!<br \/>\nO, what may man within him hide,<br \/>\nThough angel on the outward side!<br \/>\nHow many likeness made in crimes,<br \/>\nMaking practice on the times,<br \/>\nTo draw with idle spiders&#8217; strings<br \/>\nMost pond&#8217;rous and substantial things!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shift around the letters, and it becomes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The former governor of New York State seemed like someone we might trust. <\/p>\n<p>When he held the attorney general post, he had a reputation for upholding the law, so we dismissed character assassins and voted for his vision.<\/p>\n<p>But now he&#8217;s fallen.  He got caught lying, breaking the law, and dismissing morality. <\/p>\n<p>What will we be thinking about seemly politicians that ask for votes or money now?  How can we risk what misconducts one might be hiding?   How do we tell smiling inspirational charm from hidden smug selfishness?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Measure for Measure: He, who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go; More nor less to others paying Than by self offences weighing. Shame to him whose cruel striking Kills for faults of his own liking! Twice treble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,76,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anagram","category-measure-for-measure","category-politics","category-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","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=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}