{"id":32997,"date":"2026-08-29T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=32997"},"modified":"2026-09-05T09:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:27:05","slug":"it-took-about-seven-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2026\/08\/it-took-about-seven-months\/","title":{"rendered":"It took about seven months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am tackling a book of 365 daily Shakespeare readings this year. Each day, after a brief introduction, the editor sets the reader free to interpret the text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s jarring for me to be thrown into a different plot every day. I haven&#8217;t enjoyed the book, and I don&#8217;t think this is a good way to experience Shakespeare. However, sometime in July, I noticed the words were making more sense. I began to appreciate the human experience being expressed and it wasn&#8217;t such a wrestle to find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It took seven months. Seven!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do I share this? Perhaps just to say there is hope for someone who keeps trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am tackling a book of 365 daily Shakespeare readings this year. Each day, after a brief introduction, the editor sets the reader free to interpret the text. It&#8217;s jarring for me to be thrown into a different plot every day. I haven&#8217;t enjoyed the book, and I don&#8217;t think this is a good way &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2026\/08\/it-took-about-seven-months\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It took about seven months<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33092,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32997\/revisions\/33092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}