{"id":43,"date":"2008-04-25T09:18:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T08:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=43"},"modified":"2010-04-20T18:28:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:28:59","slug":"happy-birthday-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Bill!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/images\/bard_barge.jpg\" align=\"right\"  hspace=\"5\" title=\"Shakespeare's birthday barge\" alt=\"Shakespeare's birthday barge\" \/>Literary Connections made the pilgrimage to Bankside on Shakespeare&#8217;s birthday on Wednesday and was rewarded by the sight of a miniature (and appropriately stagy) Elizabethan theatre sailing up the Thames in the evening sunlight, announced by the sound of trumpets (or were they sackbuts?) and drums. You can, I hope, see something of this in the photograph. It was hardly Cleopatra&#8217;s &#8216;burnish&#8217;d throne&#8217; but impressive enough to entertain the crowd on the riverbank and sufficient to make us feel touched by a little of the Bard&#8217;s magic for the evening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakespeare&#8217;s birthday boat on the Thames<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre","tag-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}