{"id":191432,"date":"2014-09-14T00:15:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T00:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/14\/shakespeare-was-queer-i-thought-he-only-had\/"},"modified":"2014-09-14T00:15:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T00:15:23","slug":"shakespeare-was-queer-i-thought-he-only-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/14\/shakespeare-was-queer-i-thought-he-only-had\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare was queer? I thought he only had affairs with ladies. What dudes did he get it on with?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"https:\/\/swanjolras-archive.tumblr.com\/post\/83666694874\/shakespeare-was-queer-i-thought-he-only-had\">swanjolras-archive<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>OH U SWEET SUMMER CHILD<\/p>\n<p>so remember those sonnets, you know, about one hundred and twenty-six of them, the whole thing about \u201cshall i compare thee to a summer\u2019s day\u201d<\/p>\n<p>written to a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Wriothesley,_3rd_Earl_of_Southampton\" target=\"_blank\">hot male earl<\/a>, dude<\/p>\n<p>in 1640\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Benson_(publisher)\" target=\"_blank\">some asshole named john<\/a>\u00a0<em>literally had to change all the pronouns<\/em> in those 126 sonnets because they were\u00a0<em>super fuckin queer<\/em> and he was not comfy with how super fuckin queer they were<\/p>\n<p>also, like,\u00a0casual elizabethan bisexuality? christopher \u201cthey who love not tobacco and boys are fools\u201d marlowe? the venetian \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ponte_delle_Tette\" target=\"_blank\">tit bridge<\/a>\u201d, where prostitutes were\u00a0<em>commanded by official decree<\/em> to stand around topless to entice men who were bangin\u2019 too many dudes, because there were so many gay men it was becoming a\u00a0<em>legitimate social problem<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>welcome to the wonderful world of \u201cliterally everyone in the past was queer\u201d, friend, enjoy your stay<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>swanjolras-archive: OH U SWEET SUMMER CHILD so remember those sonnets, you know, about one hundred and twenty-six of them, the whole thing about \u201cshall i compare thee to a summer\u2019s day\u201d written to a hot male earl, dude in 1640\u00a0some asshole named john\u00a0literally had to change all the pronouns in those 126 sonnets because they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/14\/shakespeare-was-queer-i-thought-he-only-had\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shakespeare was queer? I thought he only had affairs with ladies. What dudes did he get it on with?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[446,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}