{"id":59,"date":"2007-01-30T08:01:06","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T13:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/59"},"modified":"2017-07-10T00:15:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T05:15:10","slug":"conundrum-picnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/59","title":{"rendered":"Conundrum: Picnic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another new <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/conundrum><\/a>weekly feature, which means that you can now waste valuable work time at Shakespeare Teacher five days a week!<\/p>\n<p>This week, I&#8217;m having a picnic.  I&#8217;m putting together my guest list based on one simple rule.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting DANTE, but not PETRARCH.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting GALILEO, but not COPERNICUS.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting REMBRANDT, but not PICASSO.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting NAPOLEON, but not ROBESPIERRE.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting PENN, but not TELLER.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting KERMIT THE FROG, but not MISS PIGGY.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting QUEEN ELIZABETH II, but not PRESIDENT BUSH.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting LAVERNE &#038; SHIRLEY, but not CAGNEY &#038; LACEY.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have you figured out the rule?  If so, <strong>please don&#8217;t post it<\/strong>.  Just post one or two additions to the list to show us you got it, and to give an extra hint to later solvers.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The solution is now posted in the comments.<\/p>\n<p><!--5999f0c5e2534c0af3cf6e63dc654440--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another new weekly feature, which means that you can now waste valuable work time at Shakespeare Teacher five days a week! This week, I&#8217;m having a picnic. I&#8217;m putting together my guest list based on one simple rule. I&#8217;m inviting DANTE, but not PETRARCH. I&#8217;m inviting GALILEO, but not COPERNICUS. I&#8217;m inviting REMBRANDT, but not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conundrum","category-president-bush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6181,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/6181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}