{"id":1394448,"date":"2016-11-07T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1394448"},"modified":"2019-02-11T14:05:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T19:05:39","slug":"whats-your-signature-shakespearean-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/whats-your-signature-shakespearean-insult\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Your Signature Shakespearean Insult?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/nov7shakespeareinsultsquiz1_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gone are the days of calling someone a greasy tallow-catch or a plague sore. In the modern age, \u00a0we make do with slanderous put-downs like &#8220;moron&#8221; or &#8220;idiot,&#8221; and we follow it up with the appropriate emoji.<\/p>\n<p>But personally, I yearn for a simpler time\u2014a time when insults <em>meant something<\/em>. A time when you could call a man out for being a bawdy \u00a0canker-blossom and have him soundly beheaded for his hubris. Are you with me on this? Yeah? Then let&#8217;s find out what \u00a0kinds of verbal abuse YOU \u00a0would&#8217;ve been flinging at unruly palace knaves.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gone are the days of calling someone a greasy tallow-catch or a plague sore. In the modern age, \u00a0we make do with slanderous put-downs like &#8220;moron&#8221; or &#8220;idiot,&#8221; and we follow it up with the   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[278,25016],"tags":[21647,1356,524,7915,248,23195,20770,630],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394448"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}