{"id":3949,"date":"2013-02-06T15:30:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2013-02-08T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T22:43:25","slug":"i-have-set-my-life-upon-a-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/06\/i-have-set-my-life-upon-a-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I have set my life upon a cast&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/world.time.com\/2013\/02\/04\/richard-iiis-bones-should-one-of-historys-losers-be-redeemed\/?xid=newsletter-daily\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from TIME Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Richard III\u2019s Bones: Should One of History\u2019s Losers Be Redeemed?<\/h1>\n<div>By\u00a0<a title=\"Posts by Ishaan Tharoor\" href=\"http:\/\/world.time.com\/author\/itharoor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Ishaan Tharoor<\/a><\/div>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xLongUBPm5Y\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>These are royal bones. Researchers from the U.K.\u2019s University of Leicester confirmed today that the remains of a skeleton\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/2012\/08\/29\/resting-in-pieces-is-richard-iii-buried-under-a-parking-lot\/\" target=\"_blank\">discovered in September<\/a>\u00a0beneath a parking lot in the British Midlands were that of Richard III, a monarch who ruled for a brief, bloody two years before being slain in battle in 1485.<\/p>\n<p>But now that we have \u2014 or at least, believe we have \u2014 established the identity of the remains, what of the historical figure that once gave them life? Richard III perished at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 when his army was decisively defeated by the forces of Henry Tudor, a rival claimant to the throne who would go on to become King Henry VII.<\/p>\n<p>More than a century later,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.time.com\/william-shakespeare\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Shakespeare<\/a>\u00a0would immortalize the cornered Richard\u2019s final moments in\u00a0<i>Richard III\u00a0<\/i>as he fights grimly on foot after losing his steed \u2014 \u201cA horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.\u201d Sensing his doom a few lines before, Richard intones: \u201cI have set my life upon a cast,\/ And I will stand the hazard of the die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/world.time.com\/2013\/02\/04\/richard-iiis-bones-should-one-of-historys-losers-be-redeemed\/?xid=newsletter-daily\" target=\"_blank\">click to read complete article at TIME<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TIME Magazine Richard III\u2019s Bones: Should One of History\u2019s Losers Be Redeemed? By\u00a0Ishaan Tharoor These are royal bones. Researchers from the U.K.\u2019s University of Leicester confirmed today that the remains of a skeleton\u00a0discovered in September\u00a0beneath a parking lot in the British Midlands were that of Richard III, a monarch who ruled for a brief, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}