{"id":78,"date":"2014-04-09T23:31:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T23:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2014-04-09T23:31:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T23:31:58","slug":"a-handy-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"A Handy Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goodticklebrain.com\/shakespeare-index\/#\/three-panel-plays\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-79\" alt=\"windsor_thirdPanel\" src=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/windsor_thirdPanel.jpg\" width=\"236\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/windsor_thirdPanel.jpg 236w, https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/windsor_thirdPanel-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a>All writers, and smarty-pantses in general, naturally need to have a good working knowledge of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays.\u00a0 There&#8217;s nothing worse than being at a dinner party full of literary types when someone brings up Shakespeare and getting confused about the difference between Henry V and Henry VI.\u00a0 Then everyone titters at you, and you try to recover by comparing and contrasting Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace, but no one cares because neither of <em>those<\/em> guys are foundational writers of the English language and the whole evening is a disaster.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve all been there.<\/p>\n<p>So, to avoid that, and to avoid your needing to read a whole hell of a lot of plays, I point you this handy reference, a <a href=\"http:\/\/goodticklebrain.com\/shakespeare-index\/#\/three-panel-plays\/\">retelling of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays in 3-panel, stick-figure comic form<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All writers, and smarty-pantses in general, naturally need to have a good working knowledge of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays.\u00a0 There&#8217;s nothing worse than being at a dinner party full of literary types when someone brings up Shakespeare and getting confused about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=78\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qgvH-1g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}