{"id":88,"date":"2007-02-16T05:56:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T10:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/88"},"modified":"2008-09-13T20:37:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T00:37:25","slug":"six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon-master-shake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/88","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon: Master Shake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon\"><\/a>the rules of the game.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s challenge will be tasty beverage, erstwhile Boston terror suspect, and Lou Costello soundalike <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Master_Shake\" target=\"_blank\">Master Shake<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to link Master Shake to Sir Francis Bacon in four 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 22.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations once again to Lee for winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/78\">last week&#8217;s challenge<\/a> by linking <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Payton_Manning\" target=\"_blank\">Peyton Manning<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Bacon\" target=\"_blank\">Sir Francis Bacon<\/a> in six degrees:<\/p>\n<p>Peyton Manning &gt; Dan Marino &gt; Courteney Cox &gt; Bruce Springsteen &gt; Elvis Costello &gt; William Shakespeare &gt; Sir Francis Bacon<\/p>\n<p>Peyton Manning in 2004 beat the record for touchdown passes in a single season set in 1984 by Dan Marino, who appeared in <em>Ace Ventura: Pet Detective<\/em> with Courteney Cox, who appeared in the video for &#8220;Dancing in the Dark&#8221; by Bruce Springsteen, who performed The Clash&#8217;s &#8220;London Calling&#8221; at the 2003 Grammy Awards with Elvis Costello, who based his ballet <em>Il Sogno<\/em> on <em>A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream<\/em> by William Shakespeare, who is believed by some to be Sir Francis Bacon.<\/p>\n<p><!--d56b17fb0ea4ac7d44744a1fa1ceb102--><\/p>\n<p><!--050408e46d1cbd90760fc47136d82d36--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, read the rules of the game. This week&#8217;s challenge will be tasty beverage, erstwhile Boston terror suspect, and Lou Costello soundalike Master Shake. I was able to link Master Shake to Sir Francis Bacon in four degrees, though that shouldn&#8217;t stop you from posting a longer response, or looking for a shorter one. Entries [&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-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-six-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}