{"id":1401100,"date":"2018-01-24T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1401100"},"modified":"2019-02-08T11:30:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:30:38","slug":"shakespeare-plays-summed-up-in-pie-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/shakespeare-plays-summed-up-in-pie-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Plays Summed Up in Pie Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/jan24shakespearepiechartsMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever read a Shakespeare play? Look, I love the guy, but those things are DENSE. Each one is super long. There are roughly a billion characters. Half the words are things he made up on the spot and expected everyone to just get on board with, like \u201cDIDN&#8217;T YOU GUYS GET THE MEMO? THIS IS A WORD NOW.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a fact: everything is easier to understand in the form of a pie chart. And while a pie chart is no substitute for, you know, actually reading the play (or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/shakespeare\/\" target=\"_blank\">SparkNote<\/a>), at the very least it can help you get started. LET&#8217;S GET TO IT.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: this is extremely scientific data and I have never made a single mistake in my entire life, so don&#8217;t @ me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever read a Shakespeare play? Look, I love the guy, but those things are DENSE. Each one is super long. There are roughly a billion characters. Half the words are things he made   <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":[7],"tags":[438,628,2335,1356,524,6506,10485,7915,8058,2344,9554,171,248,23323,8561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401100"}],"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=1401100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}