{"id":2822,"date":"2018-06-04T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2018-06-04T12:25:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:25:17","slug":"to-be-or-not-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/06\/04\/to-be-or-not-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"To be or not to be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2811\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2811\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aw060418-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2811\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aw060418-4-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"To be or not to be?\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aw060418-4-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/aw060418-4.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">To be or not to be?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Being is definitely better than not being. Please recall that this quote, in Act III, Scene 1 of <em>Hamlet<\/em>, was asked by a young man who suspected that his mother and stepfather had arranged the murder of his father. He was thinking that not-being would &#8220;end\/ The heartache and the thousand natural shocks\/ That flesh is heir to.&#8221; If you&#8217;re suffering heartache that makes you think about not being, please get help immediately: call the counseling office at 617-552-3310 (8:45-4:45 M-F) and ask to speak to the Psychological Emergency Clinician (PEC), or visit the office in person in Gasson 001. (If you&#8217;re just quoting Shakespeare&#8217;s Hamlet to show your appreciation for a fine play, here&#8217;s a 3-minute version you might find entertaining: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3-minute-hamlet\">bit.ly\/3-minute-hamlet<\/a>. Click &#8220;show more&#8221; for the lyrics, so you can understand the thick Glasgow accent.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being is definitely better than not being. Please recall that this quote, in Act III, Scene 1 of Hamlet, was asked by a young man who suspected that his mother and stepfather had arranged the murder of his father. He was thinking that not-being would &#8220;end\/ The heartache and the thousand natural shocks\/ That flesh &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/06\/04\/to-be-or-not-to-be\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To be or not to be?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-health-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2829,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}