{"id":960,"date":"2013-04-02T02:47:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T06:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=960"},"modified":"2013-04-02T02:47:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T06:47:37","slug":"things-lll-got-had-ever-bad-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Things lll Got Had Ever Bad Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or not. Turns out Shakespeare was a savvy, as well as somewhat shady, businessman who managed in his career to not only exploit his gifts but also to exploit his neighbors. According to <i>The Telegraph<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The study notes: &#8220;By combining both illegal and legal activities, Shakespeare was able to retire in 1613 as the largest property owner in his home town, Stratford-upon-Avon. His profits\u2014minus a few fines for illegal hoarding and tax evasion\u2014meant he had a working life of just 24 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Genius indeed. A search for &#8216;hoard&#8217; throughout the corpus yields some suggestive readings in the light of his moonlighting, such as when Horatio says to old Hamlet&#8217;s ghost.<\/p>\n<p>O, speak!<br \/>\nOr if thou hast uphoarded in thy life<br \/>\nExtorted treasure in the womb of earth<br \/>\n(For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death),<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The cock crows.<br \/>\nSpeak of it! Stay, and speak!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or not. Turns out Shakespeare was a savvy, as well as somewhat shady, businessman who managed in his career to not only exploit his gifts but also to exploit his neighbors. According to The Telegraph: The study notes: &#8220;By combining both illegal and legal activities, Shakespeare was able to retire in 1613 as the largest property owner in his home &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}