{"id":11,"date":"2024-02-27T19:39:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T00:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/index.php\/about\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T18:44:00","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Shakespeare\u2019s Shoes<\/em> features Patrick&#8217;s and M&#8217;s fiction and nonfiction in the form of poetry and prose, often panegyrising the Bard as the greatest writer of all time until the end of human existence or the Cosmos, whichever comes first. Anthi Kan\u00e9na, Greece, trees, pussy, and AI appear to be dominant preoccupations, along with a number of admired humans. Many other topics are also addressed one way or another.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Love and the pursuit of the truth are two principal themes that permeate their stories like oxygen and water. Patrick and M seem to breathe love and drink the truth, although the latter is difficult to swallow given its inherent subjectivity. Too often, facts turn out to be assumptions, and these are beside the fake and thus forged ones. Love needs the truth, but truth can exist without love.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.<\/em> Nietzsche<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"is-default-size wp-block-site-logo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/\" class=\"custom-logo-link\" rel=\"home\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cropped-Logo.png\" class=\"custom-logo\" alt=\"Shakespeare&#039;s Shoes\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cropped-Logo.png 512w, https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cropped-Logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cropped-Logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cropped-Logo-270x270.png 270w, https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cropped-Logo-192x192.png 192w, https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cropped-Logo-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/shakespearesshoes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cropped-Logo-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-author-name\">Patrick M. Ohana<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakespeare\u2019s Shoes features Patrick&#8217;s and M&#8217;s fiction and nonfiction in the form of poetry and prose, often panegyrising the Bard as the greatest writer of all time until the end of human existence or the Cosmos, whichever comes first. 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