ortrait of Shakespeare<\/span><\/a> and replaced it with a portrait of that other one.\u00a0 You know, that author whose works have passed-the-test-of-time, delighted billions around the globe.\u00a0 What\u2019s the name again?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Help me out here, it\u2019s that famous writer.\u00a0 The one you\u2019ve heard of, whose books you read in school, everybody read them.\u00a0 Dang, it\u2019s on the tip of my tongue: Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Twain, Hemmingway . . . aw, I can\u2019t believe this, how could I forget?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Look, it\u2019s the English Department.\u00a0 They put up portraits of the greatest writers of all time just like the mural outside Barnes and Noble.\u00a0 They\u2019re the most influential, most enduring, the authors whose literature is literally timeless.\u00a0 I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m blanking on this one.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Shelley, Proust, Solzhenitsyn, Homer?\u00a0 Agggh.\u00a0 You know, the greatest writer of all time, obviously, since the writings are deemed worthy to replace Shakespeare.\u00a0 Practically the foundation of the entire canon of literature in western civilization.\u00a0 Way more well-known than that famous black\u00a0professor who every cop knows on sight.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>This is so embarrassing.\u00a0 It\u2019ll come to me.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/span>Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nGot me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Students in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania took down a portrait of Shakespeare and replaced it with a portrait of that other one.\u00a0 You know, that author whose works have passed-the-test-of-time, delighted billions around the globe.\u00a0 What\u2019s the name again?\u00a0 \u00a0Help me out here, it\u2019s that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,309,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-indoctrinate-u","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61362,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61361\/revisions\/61362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}