{"id":13745,"date":"2021-08-27T15:45:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T14:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13745"},"modified":"2021-08-27T15:47:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T14:47:16","slug":"mikebeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13745","title":{"rendered":"Mikebeth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shakespeare&#8217;s <em>Macbeth<\/em>, from Wikipedia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A brave Scottish general named&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macbeth_(character)\">Macbeth<\/a>&nbsp;receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/King_of_Scotland\">King of Scotland<\/a>. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lady_Macbeth\">Lady Macbeth<\/a>&nbsp;into the realms of madness and death.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macbeth\">Macbeth &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Now isn&#8217;t this <em>basically<\/em> the olden days story of Mike Richards getting and losing the <strong>Jeopardy<\/strong> job? Someone make this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning or tournament of champi-ain?&quot;<\/p>&mdash; Brig Bother (@BothersBar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BothersBar\/status\/1430851481582903301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;By the buzzing of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.&quot;<\/p>&mdash; NewsCorp Rims Fascists (@TheGrimRecapper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGrimRecapper\/status\/1430886056077893639?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I know this post is &#8220;a bit NPR&#8221;, so feel free to read it with some inoffensive plinky-plonk music in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakespeare&#8217;s Macbeth, from Wikipedia: A brave Scottish general named&nbsp;Macbeth&nbsp;receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become&nbsp;King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. 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