{"id":468,"date":"2008-05-31T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T16:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/468"},"modified":"2013-09-01T21:33:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T02:33:39","slug":"shakespeare-anagram-a-midsummer-nights-dream-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/468","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Anagram: A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I caused quite a bit of controversy in the academic world with <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/461>my last anagram<\/a> that demonstrated that Sir Francis Bacon may be the true author of Shakespeare&#8217;s works.  Now, I make amends.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the play, Shakespeare sets the record straight about these hidden messages.  I apologize for any inconvenience I may have caused by shaking up your worldview.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If we shadows have offended,<br \/>\nThink but this, and all is mended,<br \/>\nThat you have but slumber&#8217;d here<br \/>\nWhile these visions did appear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shift around the letters, and it becomes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tell this: I, dubbed William Shakespeare, penned the stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The odd hidden author shifts you have been shown was a vivid dream.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caused quite a bit of controversy in the academic world with my last anagram that demonstrated that Sir Francis Bacon may be the true author of Shakespeare&#8217;s works. Now, I make amends. At the end of the play, Shakespeare sets the record straight about these hidden messages. I apologize for any inconvenience I may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,102,3,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anagram","category-authorship","category-shakespeare","category-the-dream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/4673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}