{"id":2236,"date":"2008-02-12T15:22:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T23:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2008-02-13T15:44:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T23:44:27","slug":"remind-me-to-never-read-another-shakespeare-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"Remind Me To Never Read Another Shakespeare Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re all boring. Even a talent writer such as Bill Bryson can&#8217;t put together anything compelling because we know so little.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, you say we know more about Shakespeare than almost any contemporary. Well, big deal. It&#8217;s still drips and drabs. There&#8217;s less there than in the Torah. But like Judaism, Shakespeare biographies are based on a minimum of revelation and a maximum of interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m better off spending my time studying Britney Spears.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re all boring. Even a talent writer such as Bill Bryson can&#8217;t put together anything compelling because we know so little. Oh, you say we know more about Shakespeare than almost any contemporary. Well, big deal. It&#8217;s still drips and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2236\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[592],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}