{"id":167,"date":"2007-05-30T23:59:43","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T03:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=167"},"modified":"2007-05-30T23:59:43","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T03:59:43","slug":"marlowe-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/167","title":{"rendered":"Marlowe day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 30, 1593 is either the day that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marlowe\">Christopher Marlowe<\/a> was killed by Ingram Frizer after arguing over who&#8217;d pick up the tab or the day he faked his death and was spirited off to the continent. I&#8217;m not a big one for conspiracy theories; they seem to me to have a lot in common with &#8216;not a sparrow falls&#8217; religions &#8211; the desire for some kind of purpose underlying the random horrible (and wonderful) things that happen. That being said, you have to admit that the <a href=\"http:\/\/dir.salon.com\/story\/ent\/feature\/2002\/03\/02\/shakespeare\/\">Marlovian&#8217;s theory<\/a> is quite the rippin&#8217; tale. Whether you like the theory or not, the connection to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Walsingham\">Francis Walsingham<\/a> looks quite likely and from there it&#8217;s just one more hop to the preeminent cryptographer of the day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/features\/thecodebook\/excerpt.html\">Thomas Phelippes<\/a>. Rakehells, spies and code breakers &#8211; sounds like a reason to celebrate the day to me!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Christopher_Marlowe.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Christopher_Marlowe.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/09\/Christopher_Marlowe.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 30, 1593 is either the day that Christopher Marlowe was killed by Ingram Frizer after arguing over who&#8217;d pick up the tab or the day he faked his death and was spirited off to the continent. I&#8217;m not a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-2H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}