{"id":71,"date":"2007-02-06T07:05:45","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T12:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/71"},"modified":"2017-08-21T12:29:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:29:53","slug":"conundrum-picnic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/71","title":{"rendered":"Conundrum: Picnic 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had so much fun at <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/59>last week&#8217;s picnic<\/a>, I thought I&#8217;d have another.  But this time I&#8217;m using a different rule when deciding whom to invite.  You may find this one a bit more challenging than last week&#8217;s rule, but all of the invited guests do have something in common:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting MARY SHELLEY, but not PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, but not OSCAR WILDE.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting QUEEN ELIZABETH II, but not QUEEN ELIZABETH I.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., but not MALCOLM X.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting TOM CRUISE, but not DUSTIN HOFFMAN.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting MADONNA, but not JEWEL.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting COURTENEY COX ARQUETTE, but not JENNIFER ANISTON.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting BARACK OBAMA, but not HILLARY CLINTON.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m inviting GEORGE W. BUSH &#038; DICK CHENEY as well as BILL CLINTON &#038; AL GORE, but not RONALD REAGAN &#038; GEORGE H.W. BUSH.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I thought it might be fun to do some Shakespeare readings at the picnic, but only plays named for people who fit the same rule:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We will be reading JULIUS CAESAR, but not MACBETH.<\/li>\n<li>We will be reading ANTONY &#038; CLEOPATRA, but not KING JOHN.<\/li>\n<li>We will be reading KING HENRY VIII, but neither KING HENRY IV play.<\/li>\n<li>We will be reading KING RICHARD III, but not KING RICHARD II.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had so much fun at last week&#8217;s picnic, I thought I&#8217;d have another. But this time I&#8217;m using a different rule when deciding whom to invite. You may find this one a bit more challenging than last week&#8217;s rule, but all of the invited guests do have something in common: I&#8217;m inviting MARY SHELLEY, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,30,113,4,122,10,114,92,112,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antony-and-cleopatra","category-conundrum","category-histories","category-history","category-julius-caesar","category-president-bush","category-president-obama","category-richard-iii","category-secretary-clinton","category-plantagenets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}