{"id":71132,"date":"2020-06-27T20:59:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71132"},"modified":"2020-06-27T20:59:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:59:53","slug":"reading-shakespeare-in-time-of-plague-even-my-death-will-be-contested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/reading-shakespeare-in-time-of-plague-even-my-death-will-be-contested\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Shakespeare in time of Plague&#8211;  even my death will be contested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Events are moving so quickly in this land<br \/>\nthat catching ones breath is not possible<br \/>\nwith all of the contested gordian knots of limited<br \/>\noxygen overwhelming my feeble mind.<\/p>\n<p>The alliance of the Greek god Chaos<br \/>\nand the Egyptian god Seth<br \/>\nhas permeated all realms of our lives,<br \/>\neven ones death, through the orange demon who is everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare&#8217;s plays in time of plague,<br \/>\nin time of civil unrest, in time of imperial rule,<br \/>\nadds a disturbing uneasiness to how we will be when<br \/>\nevents slow down and we look into a mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Events are moving so quickly in this land that catching ones breath is not possible with all of the contested gordian knots of limited oxygen overwhelming my feeble mind. The alliance of the Greek god Chaos and the Egyptian god Seth has permeated all realms&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71782,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71132\/revisions\/71782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}