{"id":1307,"date":"2011-11-13T17:23:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T17:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2011-11-13T17:23:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T17:23:32","slug":"insult-like-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/13\/insult-like-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"Insult like Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of a new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anonymous_(film)\">movie questioning<\/a> whether William Shakespeare is the true author of the works attributed to him, the Bard is back in the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>So what better time to learn how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litdrift.com\/2011\/10\/24\/learn-to-insult-like-shakespeare\/ \">insult like him<\/a>? All you have to do is combine words from each of the three columns, and you will come up with an original insult \u2013 <em><em>\u201cyou spongy clapper-clawed varlot\u201d<\/em><\/em><strong>, for example.<\/p>\n<p>In case you have no time to pull out a piece of paper and put together your own insult, there\u2019s also an <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/app\/the-lost-insults\/id450349524?mt=8\">app<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Shakespeare-insults.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Shakespeare-insults.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shakespeare insults\" width=\"630\" height=\"729\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1308\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of a new movie questioning whether William Shakespeare is the true author of the works attributed to him, the Bard is back in the spotlight. So what better time to learn how to insult like him? All you have to do is combine words from each of the three columns, and you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[1070,3,945,1071],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-english","tag-elizabethan-english","tag-english","tag-shakespeare-language","tag-skakespearean-insults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}