{"id":48,"date":"2007-01-20T07:05:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T12:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/48"},"modified":"2007-05-08T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T15:07:08","slug":"six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon-bert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/48","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon: Bert"},"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>I had to change the rules this week, after realizing that England links to Sir Francis Bacon, and I didn&#8217;t want the game to turn into Five Degrees of England.  Now you can only link through individuals, which I think will make it feel more like the original Kevin Bacon game. <\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s challenge will be our old buddy <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bert>Bert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bert can be linked to Sir Francis Bacon in six degrees, 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 Friday, January 26.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations to Ro for winning last week&#8217;s challenge by linking <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genghis_Khan>Genghis Khan<\/a> to <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Bacon>Sir Francis Bacon<\/a> in five degrees (before the rules changed):<\/p>\n<p>Genghis Khan > Mongol Empire > China > Gunpowder > Four Great Inventions of ancient China > Sir Francis Bacon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, read the rules of the game. I had to change the rules this week, after realizing that England links to Sir Francis Bacon, and I didn&#8217;t want the game to turn into Five Degrees of England. Now you can only link through individuals, which I think will make it feel more like the original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genghis-khan","category-six-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}