{"id":1381,"date":"2017-06-02T15:19:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T20:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2017-06-02T15:19:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T20:19:39","slug":"mayberry-meets-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/2017\/06\/mayberry-meets-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayberry Meets Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUNE 2, 2017: True or False; The intense discipline of\u00a0dramatic theater, combined with\u00a0Shakespeare, paved the way for Ernest T. Bass to run wild in Mayberry.<\/p>\n<p>Answer: True! Long before The Andy Griffith Show, while serving as a sergeant in\u00a0WWII (and subsequently\u00a0on Broadway) Howard Morris performed the character of Laertes in Hamlet. SPOILER\u00a0ALERT &#8211; NEXT SENTENCE ONLY: Laertes ends up killing Hamlet. But, as with all Shakespeare plays, there&#8217;s a brilliant twist!<\/p>\n<p>My friend Allan Newsome shares\u00a0some interesting facts, and Shakespearian ties,\u00a0in this episode of Two Chairs No Waiting. Please support Allan in his tireless efforts of providing consistently amazing Mayberry background info by subscribing to his &#8220;Two Chairs No Waiting&#8221; either on YouTube, or his podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TCNW 428: Howard Morris - Second Banana\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RvAc-XK_Ois?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNE 2, 2017: True or False; The intense discipline of\u00a0dramatic theater, combined with\u00a0Shakespeare, paved the way for Ernest T. Bass to run wild in Mayberry. Answer: True! Long before The Andy Griffith Show, while serving as a sergeant in\u00a0WWII (and subsequently\u00a0on Broadway) Howard Morris performed the character of Laertes in Hamlet. SPOILER\u00a0ALERT &#8211; NEXT SENTENCE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-howard-morris"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2s4Ro-mh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ernestt.com\/bass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}