{"id":223,"date":"2017-03-05T14:05:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T19:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=223"},"modified":"2017-03-05T14:05:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T19:05:33","slug":"re-the-word-element","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/gender-trouble\/re-the-word-element\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: the word &#8220;element&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Rachel,<\/p>\n<p>I thought your point about this word was really interesting, especially considering the role that the physical elements (the weather\/natural forces) play in\u00a0<em>Twelfth Night<\/em>; a storm is the catalyst for the plot, when Viola and Sebastian are stranded, while Feste concludes the play with a song about &#8220;the wind and the rain.&#8221; Fittingly with the consciously-theatrical nature of this play, Feste references how &#8220;A great while ago the world begun, \/ With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,&#8221; &#8212; reminding the audience that the\u00a0world of\u00a0<em>Twelfth Night<\/em>\u00a0began with a storm. I&#8217;m curious about the connection between performance\/disguising your &#8220;element&#8221; and the natural elements, or if there is even one?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Rachel, I thought your point about this word was really interesting, especially considering the role that the physical elements (the weather\/natural forces) play in\u00a0Twelfth Night; a storm is the catalyst for the plot, when Viola and Sebastian are stranded, while Feste concludes the play with a song about &#8220;the wind and the rain.&#8221; Fittingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-trouble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}