{"id":4808,"date":"2021-10-13T17:22:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T00:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4808"},"modified":"2021-10-13T17:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T00:23:22","slug":"sir-francis-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2021\/10\/13\/sir-francis-bacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Francis Bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CONTEST SUBMISSION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sir Francis Bacon, an educated beagle, wondered about his name, did some research, and learned that his namesake was a statesman and writer who lived at the same time as Shakespeare. Some people thought that Bacon was the real writer of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays. This puzzled Sir Francis Bacon the beagle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why is my name Sir Francis Bacon?&#8221; he asked his human friend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because I like bacon, and you like bacon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did Bacon write Shakespeare&#8217;s plays?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No. Silly idea. Would you rather be named Shakespeare? I could give you a spear to shake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I prefer eating bacon. And answering to Bacon.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor: Anita G. Gorman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONTEST SUBMISSION: Sir Francis Bacon, an educated beagle, wondered about his name, did some research, and learned that his namesake was a statesman and writer who lived at the same time as Shakespeare. Some people thought that Bacon was the real writer of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays. This puzzled Sir Francis Bacon the beagle. &#8220;Why is my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9048,10411,1805,8378,8744,2680,4727,41,2717,6362,5567,10482,10484,945,443,10481,1409,10483,2372],"class_list":["post-4808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-anita-g-gorman","tag-anthropomorphism","tag-bacon","tag-beagle","tag-contest","tag-contest-submission","tag-friend","tag-guest-contributor","tag-human","tag-idea","tag-name","tag-namesake","tag-plays","tag-research","tag-shakespeare","tag-sir-francis-bacon","tag-spear","tag-statesman","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4810,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions\/4810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}