{"id":116,"date":"2005-10-25T08:48:38","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T13:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2005-10-25T08:50:09","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T13:50:09","slug":"we-few-we-happy-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/we-few-we-happy-few\/","title":{"rendered":"We few, We happy few"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/henryv.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Confession time.  In 1989, I went to the movies with my sweetheart to see &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097499\/\">Henry V<\/a>&#8220;.  I thought the movie would be a reinterpretation of Shakespeare&#8217;s play, so I was quite surprised as the dialogue began in iambic  pentameter.  For the first 10 minutes of the movie, my brain was overworked as I adjusted to old English and the beat of the Bard.  <\/p>\n<p>During this film, I fell forever in love with Shakespeare.  Oh sure, I had read Hamlet, Romeo &#038; Juliet and Julius Ceasar (just to name a few).  But I&#8217;d never been swept away by the words.  I didn&#8217;t know that Shakespeare was meant to be heard, not read.  (okay, so maybe the charming Kenneth Branagh had a little influence too.)<\/p>\n<p>For me, the defining moment in the film is Henry V&#8217;s  Saint Crispin&#8217;s Day Speech just before the battle of Agincourt.  To this day, these words give me courage that <em>we few, we happy few<\/em>, can accomplish the greatest of all feats. <\/p>\n<p>Today, I encourage you to pause and consider honoring Saint Crispin&#8217;s Day (October 25th) by celebrating lives well lived, beliefs held dear and shoes well made.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Special thanks to my friend, Madog Cochfarf, for keeping&#8217; the spirit of Saint Crispin&#8217;s Day alive!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/henryv.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Confession time.  In 1989, I went to the movies with my sweetheart to see &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097499\/\">Henry V<\/a>&#8220;.  I thought the movie would be a reinterpretation of Shakespeare&#8217;s play, so I was quite surprised as the dialogue began in iambic  pentameter.  For the first 10 minutes of the movie, my brain was overworked as I adjusted to old English and the beat of the Bard.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}