{"id":237,"date":"2009-03-18T09:19:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T17:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2016-09-30T21:26:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T04:26:39","slug":"shakespeare-teaches-the-birds-and-the-bees-with-sonnet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/shakespeare-teaches-the-birds-and-the-bees-with-sonnet-2","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Teaches the Birds and the Bees with Sonnet 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-238\" title=\"Schmoop Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/picture-1.png\" alt=\"Schmoop Logo\" width=\"275\" height=\"137\" \/>I was amused this morning when I read a tweet from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/helloshmoop\">helloSchmoop<\/a> comparing Shakespeare&#8217;s Sonnet 2 to a parent giving their child &#8220;the talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can see for yourself what they mean by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shmoop.com\/intro\/poetry\/william-shakespeare\/sonnet-2.html\">Schmoop&#8217;s Sonnet 2 page<\/a>. You&#8217;ll find a nutshell summary, the text of the poem itself, a brief analysis, an extended analysis, themes and study questions, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for interesting and relevant Shakespeare resources, be sure to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shmoop.com\/\">Schmoop<\/a>, a site &#8220;lovingly created by Ph.D. and Masters students from top universities.&#8221; I&#8217;ve just started looking into the site myself, and it looks like a must-have resource for literature and history teachers.<\/p>\n<p>If you use Schmoop, leave a comment sharing your opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was amused this morning when I read a tweet from helloSchmoop comparing Shakespeare&#8217;s Sonnet 2 to a parent giving their child &#8220;the talk.&#8221; You can see for yourself what they mean by visiting&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[113,112],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-schmoop","tag-shakespeare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPveS-3P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}