{"id":94,"date":"2005-02-25T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elcreations.org\/wordpresstest\/?p=94"},"modified":"2005-11-13T18:28:14","modified_gmt":"2005-11-13T10:28:14","slug":"lifes-but-a-walking-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/lifes-but-a-walking-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s But A Walking Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/gallery\/jun2003\/20030622bcrd-0038.jpg?w=1170&#038;ssl=1\" \/><br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/gallery\/sep2003\/20030919A-49.jpg?w=1170&#038;ssl=1\" \/><br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/gallery\/sep2003\/20030920A-22.jpg?w=1170&#038;ssl=1\" \/><br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/gallery\/2004\/01jan\/20040101A-0013.jpg?w=1170&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Macbeth<\/span> by William Shakespeare was my examination text in Literature when I did my GCE &#8216;O&#8217; Levels some 15 years ago. I am surprised by how vividly I can still recall passages from it up till now (listening to a taped version of the play daily while preparing for the &#8216;O&#8217; Level examination then probably contributed to this! :p). One favourite passage which a friend used to quote <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">ad nauseum <\/span>was this:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Out, out, brief candle!<\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Life&#8217;s but a walking shadow<\/span>, a poor player<br \/> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">That struts and frets his hour upon the stage<\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">And then is heard no more: it is a tale<\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,<\/span><br \/> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Signifying nothing.<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This passage is an inspiration for the above series of photos which I did a while ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/gallery\/sep2003\/thumbs\/20030919A-49.jpg\" \/>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candids","category-expression","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/przUn-1w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}