{"id":99,"date":"2007-02-23T06:56:30","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T11:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/99"},"modified":"2017-08-01T17:42:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T22:42:42","slug":"six-degrees-of-sir-francis-bacon-bill-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/99","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon: Bill Gates"},"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 is only the richest person in the whole wide world, but otherwise probably just like you and me, Microsoft macrostar <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Gates\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Gates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to link Bill Gates 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, March 1.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations once again to Lee for winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/88\">last week&#8217;s challenge<\/a> by linking <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Master_Shake\" target=\"_blank\">Master Shake<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Bacon\" target=\"_blank\">Sir Francis Bacon<\/a> in four degrees:<\/p>\n<p>Master Shake &gt; Meatwad &gt; Abraham Lincoln &gt; William Shakespeare &gt; Sir Francis Bacon<\/p>\n<p>Master Shake appears in <em>Aqua Teen Hunger Force<\/em> with Meatwad, who has the ability to take the shape of a samurai version of Abraham Lincoln, who schooled himself in the works of William Shakespeare, who is believed by some to be Sir Francis Bacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, read the rules of the game. This week&#8217;s challenge is only the richest person in the whole wide world, but otherwise probably just like you and me, Microsoft macrostar Bill Gates. I was able to link Bill Gates to Sir Francis Bacon in four degrees, though that shouldn&#8217;t stop you from posting a longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-six-degrees","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6224,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/6224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}