{"id":251,"date":"2001-12-30T20:03:43","date_gmt":"2001-12-31T04:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2001\/12\/30\/251.html"},"modified":"2001-12-30T20:03:43","modified_gmt":"2001-12-31T04:03:43","slug":"phatter-than-falstaff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2001\/12\/30\/phatter-than-falstaff\/","title":{"rendered":"Phatter than Falstaff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in college, I was a writer for a radio sketch comedy show, \"Off the Cuff.\"  One of the pieces we did was a Shakespeare Rap; unfortunately, we'd never really listened to any real rap, and I suspect it wasn't very good as rap.<\/p>\n<p>I've heard a couple pretty good rap pieces recently, but I'm still not knowledgeable enough to judge it on its own merits.  So I can't say whether a real rapper would enjoy \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ititches.com\/cod\/lyrics\/rain.html\">It Raineth Ev'ry Day<\/a>,\" a Shakespeare-reference-filled rap piece by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ititches.com\/cod\/\">Council of Doom<\/a>, but I enjoyed it.  Among my favorite lines are \"like my man Richard Gloucester I got a little hunch\" and \"You can kiss my ass like Titania did Bottom.\"<\/p>\n<p>You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ititches.com\/cod\/etc.html\">listen to the track as an MP3<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in college, I was a writer for a radio sketch comedy show, &#8220;Off the Cuff.&#8221; One of the pieces&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}