{"id":41881,"date":"2019-06-23T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=41881"},"modified":"2019-06-23T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T02:55:00","slug":"limerick-ode-to-shakespearean-acting-2-verse-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2019\/06\/23\/limerick-ode-to-shakespearean-acting-2-verse-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Shakespearean Acting (2-verse Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hvshakespeare.org\/\">Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival&#8217;s<\/a> excellent production of <a href=\"https:\/\/hvshakespeare.org\/production\/cymbeline\/\">Cymbeline<\/a>, starring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephenmichaelspencer.com\/\">Stephen Michael Spencer<\/a> as both Cloten and Posthumus, inspired me to write this 2-verse limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Act in Shakespeare? You must be a fencer<br \/>\nAnd a monologue (tragic) dispenser.<br \/>\nYou require the skill<br \/>\nTo amuse, threaten, thrill,<br \/>\nWith a style that will stymie the censor.<\/p>\n<p>Who can fit such a bill? Stephen Spencer,<br \/>\nWhose skills are prodigious; immenser<br \/>\nThan most that I&#8217;ve seen.<br \/>\nHe plays clowns, heroes, mean<br \/>\nEvil villains. I laugh &#8230; then get tenser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival&#8217;s excellent production of Cymbeline, starring Stephen Michael Spencer as both Cloten and Posthumus, inspired me to write this 2-verse limerick: Act in Shakespeare? You must be a fencer And a monologue (tragic) dispenser. You require the skill To amuse, threaten, thrill, With a style that will stymie the censor. Who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,868],"tags":[5298,5299,464,3119,468,4999,1382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41881"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41881"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41891,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41881\/revisions\/41891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}