{"id":67,"date":"2007-02-02T06:26:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T11:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/67"},"modified":"2008-02-14T04:08:19","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T09:08:19","slug":"six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon-punxsutawney-phil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/67","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon: Punxsutawney Phil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, read <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon\/>the rules of the game<\/a>.  There are some minor clarifying edits to the rules this week.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s challenge will be the world&#8217;s most famous groundhog weatherman, <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Punxsutawney_Phil>Punxsutawney Phil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to link Punxsutawney Phil 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 Thursday, February 8.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations once again to Lee for winning <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/56>last week&#8217;s challenge<\/a> by linking <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chuck_Hagel>Chuck Hagel<\/a> to <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Bacon>Sir Francis Bacon<\/a> in four degrees:<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Hagel > Ronald Reagan > Richard Nixon > William Shakespeare > Sir Francis Bacon<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Hagel was nominated in 1981 to serve as Deputy Administrator of the Veteran&#8217;s Administration by Ronald Reagan, who supported the 1960 presidential candidacy of Richard Nixon, who in high school showed a penchant for the writings of William Shakespeare, who is believed by some to be Sir Francis Bacon.<\/p>\n<p><!--862fdc7d3d65e5e10e785ac0b684129f-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--118877533a173fcc2a24785e380796fd--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, read the rules of the game. There are some minor clarifying edits to the rules this week. This week&#8217;s challenge will be the world&#8217;s most famous groundhog weatherman, Punxsutawney Phil. I was able to link Punxsutawney Phil to Sir Francis Bacon in six degrees, though that shouldn&#8217;t stop you from posting a longer response, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-six-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}