{"id":666,"date":"2013-04-23T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/04\/23\/forsooth-happy-talk-like-shakespeare-day\/"},"modified":"2013-04-23T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:34:00","slug":"forsooth-happy-talk-like-shakespeare-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/04\/23\/forsooth-happy-talk-like-shakespeare-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Forsooth! Happy Talk Like Shakespeare Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/aulibmedia\/shakespeare-comedies\/\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-sXkftwzrYxQ\/UXabuscQJrI\/AAAAAAAAAjI\/zwUWxzKZSsw\/s200\/WilliamShakespeare1.jpg\" width=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Today is William Shakespeare&#8217;s 449th birthday, and accordingly, today is also Talk Like Shakespeare Day. This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talklikeshakespeare.org\/\">an actual holiday that has been proclaimed in Chicago<\/a>. We see no reason why it can&#8217;t be celebrated at the AU Library too.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the bard&#8217;s birthday on this most unusual but completely real holiday, consider coming to Media Services and watching some of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays. We have a fairly extensive collection of Shakespeare performances: we have separate Pinterest boards for his <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/aulibmedia\/shakespeare-comedies\/\">comedies<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/aulibmedia\/shakespeare-tragedies\/\">tragedies<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/aulibmedia\/shakespeare-histories\/\">histories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Barring that, you could also just watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0454945\">She&#8217;s the Man<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=7383621\">HU DVD 4379<\/a>).\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is William Shakespeare&#8217;s 449th birthday, and accordingly, today is also Talk Like Shakespeare Day. This is an actual holiday that has been proclaimed in Chicago. We see no reason why it can&#8217;t be celebrated at the AU Library too. To celebrate the bard&#8217;s birthday on this most unusual but completely real holiday, consider coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[290,355],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-related-movies","tag-timely-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}