{"id":335,"date":"2013-10-04T22:26:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetravellingmonkeys.co.uk\/blog\/?p=335"},"modified":"2020-04-19T18:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T17:47:33","slug":"willy-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetravellingmonkeys.co.uk\/blog\/willy-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"Willy Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Travelling Monkeys head to Shakespeare Country, which is Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He wrote lots of poems and plays and is famous worldwide. Tourists flock from all over the world to visit his home town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Willy and Rudi spend the day dressed as &#8220;The Bard&#8221; (as Shakepeare is also known) in his honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They spy one of his cats in the garden of his house and check out some of the other properties associated with him, including Anne Hathaway&#8217;s cottage. Anne was Shakespeare&#8217;s wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Willy &amp; Rudi also stop outside the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (home of the Royal Shakespeare Company or RSC) where plays are still being put on to this day.  See more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsc.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.rsc.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afterwards, Willy and Rudi change into their Country Gent outfits to visit one of the National Trust residences nearby, Baddesley Clinton\u00a0to take a look at how people used to live years ago. Find out more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/baddesley-clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/baddesley-clinton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='584' height='329' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/wIomPgif?preloadContent=metadata&amp;hd=0&amp;cover=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1674852142'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Travelling Monkeys head to Shakespeare Country, which is Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He wrote lots of poems and plays and is famous worldwide. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetravellingmonkeys.co.uk\/blog\/willy-shakespeare\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetravellingmonkeys.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetravellingmonkeys.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetravellingmonkeys.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetravellingmonkeys.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetravellingmonkeys.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetravellingmonkeys.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetravellingmonkeys.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetravellingmonkeys.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetravellingmonkeys.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetravellingmonkeys.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}