{"id":18475,"date":"2013-04-23T21:54:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T01:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=18475"},"modified":"2013-04-23T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T01:54:08","slug":"last-man-standing-to-be-a-lyric-or-not-to-be-a-lyric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-to-be-a-lyric-or-not-to-be-a-lyric\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: To Be (A Lyric) Or Not To Be (A Lyric)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/WilliamShakespeare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18480\" alt=\"WilliamShakespeare\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/WilliamShakespeare.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know you&#8217;ve been saving your celebrating until now. I feel embarrassed that it slipped my mind until NPR reminded me: Today is Shakespeare&#8217;s birthday!<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Avonian Willie and his prolixity, let us celebrate with a <em>Last Man Standing<\/em> that features lyrics penned by The Bard.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Cliffs Notes are allowed, but no, you can not include broadcasts of Shakespeare productions, or movies and their soundtracks. Subtle paraphrasing is also permitted.<\/p>\n<p>I start you off with <strong>Rush, &#8220;Limelight.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know you&#8217;ve been saving your celebrating until now. I feel embarrassed that it slipped my mind until NPR reminded me: Today is Shakespeare&#8217;s birthday! In honor of Avonian Willie and his prolixity, let us celebrate with a Last Man Standing that features lyrics penned by The Bard. Yes, Cliffs Notes are allowed, but no, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-to-be-a-lyric-or-not-to-be-a-lyric\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55,204,807],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}