{"id":2673,"date":"2023-12-30T17:09:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T21:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2023-12-30T17:11:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T21:11:33","slug":"shakespeare-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/shakespeare-2-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamlet\u2019s Epiphany"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Hamlet found the Ghost’s account was true,
\nWhile viewing Claudius’ response to a play
\nAbout the murder of a king, he knew
\nHe had to act: his uncle he’d have to slay.
\nEasier said than done, of course: as seen
\nWhen he mistook Polonius for the other
\nAnd slew the old man, who’d hid behind a screen
\nTo hear what Hamlet might reveal to mother.
\n“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,”
\nHe then perceives, “rough-hew them how we will”;
\nAnd in this thought it seems he apprehends
\nThat God shall make it clear when he must kill.
\n++<\/span>By “providence”, it’s just occurred to me,
\n++<\/span>Hamlet refers to synchronicity<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ramat Gan
\n30 December 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Hamlet found the Ghost’s account was true, While viewing Claudius’ response to a play About the murder of a king, he knew He had to act: his uncle he’d have to slay. Easier said than done, of course: as seen When he mistook Polonius for the other And slew the old man, who’d hid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,30,16,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}