{"id":94,"date":"2003-05-21T16:16:41","date_gmt":"2003-05-21T16:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=94"},"modified":"2003-05-21T16:16:41","modified_gmt":"2003-05-21T16:16:41","slug":"a-most-disturbing-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"A Most Disturbing Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I picked up Kenneth Branagh&#8217;s version of <i>Much Ado About Nothing<\/i> on DVD at Target for under ten dollars.  I haven&#8217;t watched it&#8211;been too busy to do so&#8211;so I&#8217;ve added it to my &#8220;to be watched&#8221; pile.  Before I went to bed, I took the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kli.org\">Klingon Language Institute<\/a>&#8216;s translation of the play off the bookshelf and flipped through it, read the introduction.  And then drifted off to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Only to wake up several hours later, thanks to a most disturbing dream.<\/p>\n<p>In my dream, Branagh made yet another Shakespearean film.  Only this time, he staged it &#8220;in the original Klingon,&#8221; to use the phrase from <b>Star Trek VI<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The play adapted?  <i>The Merry Wives of Windsor<\/i>.  With Stephen Fry as Falstaff.<\/p>\n<p>If you can picture Fry&#8217;s General Melchett from <i>Blackadder Goes Forth<\/i> in full Klingon costume and make-up, you can probably imagine the fright this dream caused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I picked up Kenneth Branagh&#8217;s version of Much Ado About Nothing on DVD at Target for under ten dollars. I haven&#8217;t watched it&#8211;been too busy to do so&#8211;so I&#8217;ve added it to my &#8220;to be watched&#8221; pile. Before I went to bed, I took the Klingon Language Institute&#8216;s translation of the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=94\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;A Most Disturbing Dream&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[542,803,863,141,4089,107],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-dreams","tag-kenneth-branagh","tag-klingon","tag-shakespeare","tag-star-trek","tag-stephen-fry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}