{"id":3130,"date":"2016-04-23T21:34:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T13:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/23\/shakespeare-is-still-reliable-with-the-ladies-says-online-dating-study\/"},"modified":"2016-04-23T21:34:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T13:34:44","slug":"shakespeare-is-still-reliable-with-the-ladies-says-online-dating-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/23\/shakespeare-is-still-reliable-with-the-ladies-says-online-dating-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare is still reliable with the ladies, says online dating study"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Language was invented for one reason, boys, to woo women,” Robin Williams’ Dead Poets Society <\/i>character, Mr. Keating,\u00a0tells a class of boarding school teens by way of explaining the value of poetry.\u00a0“And in that endeavor, laziness will not do.” \u00a0<\/p>\n

This is a lesson today’s lazier online daters would do well to take to heart. Because it seems that invoking the greatest\u00a0practitioner of the English language will significantly boost your chances of getting a response, according to a study by Match.com.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Patrick Stewart reciting Shakespeare will send shivers down your spine<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare<\/a>‘s death on Saturday, the world’s largest online dating service trawled its database for mentions of the Bard \u2014 and discovered how successful members who used his name and works can be.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Language was invented for one reason, boys, to woo women,” Robin Williams’ Dead Poets Society character, Mr. Keating,\u00a0tells a class of boarding school teens by way of explaining the value of poetry.\u00a0“And in that endeavor, laziness will not do.” \u00a0 … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[756,859,2410,1166,2124],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-books","tag-dating","tag-match","tag-online-dating","tag-shakespeare"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}