{"id":11568,"date":"2012-04-23T14:53:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T19:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=11568"},"modified":"2012-04-23T14:53:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T19:53:28","slug":"happy-estimated-448th-birthday-william-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=11568","title":{"rendered":"Happy (Estimated) 448th Birthday, William Shakespeare!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Arnold was suitably awed:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Others abide our question. Thou art free.<br \/>\nWe ask and ask\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthou smilest and art still,<br \/>\nOut-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill,<br \/>\nWho to the stars uncrowns his majesty,<\/p>\n<p>Planting his stedfast footsteps in the sea,<br \/>\nMaking the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place,<br \/>\nSpares but the cloudy border of his base<br \/>\nTo the foiled searching of mortality;<\/p>\n<p>And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know,<br \/>\nSelf-schooled, self-scanned, self-honored, self-secure,<br \/>\nDidst tread on earth unguessed at\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbetter so!<br \/>\nAll pains the immortal spirit must endure,<\/p>\n<p>All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow,<br \/>\nFind their sole speech in that victorious brow.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Arnold was suitably awed:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-things-we-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11569,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions\/11569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}