{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"36103648","dateCreated":"1300425381","smartDate":"Mar 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"joseph86","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/joseph86","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36103648"},"dateDigested":1531974097,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"wiki 17","description":"In this monologue romeo is describing Julieta. Romeo is emphasising the fact that Juliet shows out against all other women. He says that she looks like a bright jewel on a dark man, or a white dove surrounded by black crows. Romeo also states that her beauty is too much that one can not handle it and that the beauty is too much for normal people. Romeo says that she is so beautiful that she teaches torches how to be bright and that, what he thought was beauty before was nothing compared to her attractiveness.
\nIn this monologue the iambic pentameter form helps to emphasize points, to make a love statement more beautiful and a speech pleasant to hear. One way that the iambic pentameter form helps emphasize the points is by making the strong syllables the adjectives that stick to ones head. For example in most of the last word of every verse is an important adjective I the description. Not only the last word is important but many stressed words are important too. One example of this of stressed syllables being important is the \u201cSo shows a snowy dove trooping with crows.\u201d He is trying to stress that she shows out like a white bird with crows, and one sees the strong syllables being; shows, snow-, crows. Another way that the iambic pentameter helps him is by giving a certain rhythm making the monologue more pleasing for the ear. this type of musicality also helps to convey the feeling of love, this is because music normally helps to express feelings.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36091670","dateCreated":"1300409426","smartDate":"Mar 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"jose_4595","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jose_4595","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36091670"},"dateDigested":1531974097,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"jose rodriguez","description":"Her beauty is as bright as a torch
\nShe shines in the night like an earring in the ear of an Ethiopian.
\nHer beauty is to great for the earth
\nShe is like a dove among crows, when she stands with other women she stands out more.
\nJust by being with her I am blessed
\nDid I love before now? No.
\nbefore I saw her, I hadn't seen beauty.
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\nThis is what Romeo was saying about Juliet in the play Romeo and Juliet. He used an iambic pentameter to write this. Iambic pentameter is a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable. I think that writing like this has an advantage. I think this because it looks and sounds better because it has rhythm. I also think that we can focus on what he is talking about better because he puts key words on the end of the line. For example, Romeo is talking about how he feels about Juliet, he uses the words ear, hand and sight to tell us how he sees Juliet. These words are related because they have to do with the five senses which are touch, smell, taste, sight, and hear. Those three words all have to do with them. Romeo is saying that Juliet stands out more than other women, that she is different. We can see that in the last word in the first line and in the last word of the last line, bright and night. Those words are opposites, bright is a light color and night is dark. So if Juliet were in a group of dark people she\u2019d stand out because she is bright, and vice versa. This is also a good technique because the work looks and sounds more organized. So I think that writing in iambic pentameter is an advantage.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36061956","dateCreated":"1300382245","smartDate":"Mar 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"taeyang","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/taeyang","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1223342653\/taeyang-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36061956"},"dateDigested":1531974097,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Brian Romeo N Juliet","description":"Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young teenagers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.
\nIn this passage, Romeo is like crazy about Juliet, she describes her as every goods. "Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear" He describes her as a jewel in an Ethiope's ear. He keeps describing Juliet as a beauty light, and all beauty that he can say. We can see how he loves her from this sentence "I'll watch her place of stand,".
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\nThe writing skill that Shakespeare used was \u201ciambic pentameter\u201d The iambic pentameter is is a commonly used metrical line in traditional verse and verse drama. The term describes the particular rhythm that the words establish in that line. That rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables; these small groups of syllables are called "feet". The word "iambic" describes the type of foot that is used. We can see he used most 10 syllables in a sentence (in the passage that Romeo spoke). But Shakespeare used too much iambic writing so sometimes it\u2019s hard to read. And sometimes he limes some words and it gives reader some rhythm. If you don\u2019t know anything about Shakespeare and his writing skills, or \u201chis words\u201d it\u2019s really hard to understand, but by that we need to think more, we can pay more attention to the writing, and read more carefully.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"36062050","body":"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iambic_pentameter<\/a> i used this link to describe Iambic pentameter","dateCreated":"1300382284","smartDate":"Mar 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"taeyang","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/taeyang","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1223342653\/taeyang-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"36066768","body":"Great Brian,
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1300385547","smartDate":"Mar 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"36010566","dateCreated":"1300314187","smartDate":"Mar 16, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"pprada","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/pprada","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1315457538\/pprada-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36010566"},"dateDigested":1531974097,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Paula Prada","description":"Shakespeare is comparing Juliet to light. When he says Juliet teaches the torches to burn bright he\u2019s making her seem like a goddess because there is no human that can illuminate or shine brighter than the fire of the torches. The theme of the first verses is light. He continues comparing Juliet\u2019s light and beauty by saying she is like a rich jewel hanging on the ear of an Ethiopian. He makes her outshine by making her a shining jewel next to a dark, dull skin color. The expression is used as a metaphor to make her stand out over all the other woman because she is the only woman that will shine in the darkness of the night. She is also the only snowy dove among all the crows referring to her being the only one that stands out among the other entire woman in the world. Romeo hadn\u2019t seen true beauty until he saw Juliet; he had fallen in love for the first time. He couldn\u2019t believe all of Juliet\u2019s beauty.
\n The benefits of the iambic pentameter are that Shakespeare was able to emphasize words that would conclude to different ideas or themes. For example he wanted to emphasize the theme of beauty; so he used such words like bright, dear, and sight to conclude the idea of beauty. He also planted words like night and crows, which are the opposite of light and beauty. He used the theme of light and used the words like bright, and the opposite night. The light can give you the sensation of warmth and it makes you infer Juliet was warm hearted. After all, it never mentions anything about her physical beauty; it just makes her stand out over the rest. It also said he loved her, and therefore it makes me infer he was talking more about the inner beauty, rather than the outer.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36010564","dateCreated":"1300314186","smartDate":"Mar 16, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"pprada","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/pprada","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1315457538\/pprada-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36010564"},"dateDigested":1531974097,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Paula Prada","description":"Shakespeare is comparing Juliet to light. When he says Juliet teaches the torches to burn bright he\u2019s making her seem like a goddess because there is no human that can illuminate or shine brighter than the fire of the torches. The theme of the first verses is light. He continues comparing Juliet\u2019s light and beauty by saying she is like a rich jewel hanging on the ear of an Ethiopian. He makes her outshine by making her a shining jewel next to a dark, dull skin color. The expression is used as a metaphor to make her stand out over all the other woman because she is the only woman that will shine in the darkness of the night. She is also the only snowy dove among all the crows referring to her being the only one that stands out among the other entire woman in the world. Romeo hadn\u2019t seen true beauty until he saw Juliet; he had fallen in love for the first time. He couldn\u2019t believe all of Juliet\u2019s beauty.
\n The benefits of the iambic pentameter are that Shakespeare was able to emphasize words that would conclude to different ideas or themes. For example he wanted to emphasize the theme of beauty; so he used such words like bright, dear, and sight to conclude the idea of beauty. He also planted words like night and crows, which are the opposite of light and beauty. He used the theme of light and used the words like bright, and the opposite night. The light can give you the sensation of warmth and it makes you infer Juliet was warm hearted. After all, it never mentions anything about her physical beauty; it just makes her stand out over the rest. It also said he loved her, and therefore it makes me infer he was talking more about the inner beauty, rather than the outer.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"36066708","body":"Alright Paula,
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1300385501","smartDate":"Mar 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"36009778","dateCreated":"1300313195","smartDate":"Mar 16, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"meladovelado","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/meladovelado","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1317260331\/meladovelado-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36009778"},"dateDigested":1531974097,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Melanie Velado","description":"Shakespeare\u2019s monologue \u201cO, She Doth Teach The Torches To Burn Bright\u201d initiates by depicting a woman who has the power and potential to \u201cteach the torches how to burn bright\u201d. He also compares this woman lights with the brightness of a rich jewel standing out against the cheek of colored person. He argues that her beauty is too outstanding for the world, and that she is so pretty that she shouldn\u2019t be buried when she dies. Because of her radiant beauty, she transcends, unlike other women. After describing her gorgeousness, he says that he will grab this woman\u2019s beautiful and delicate hands compared to his rough and \u201crude\u201d hands. Finally, he confesses that his eyes were blind because he had never seen true beauty before this night\u2026 when he met this lovely and incomparable woman.
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\nUsing the technique of the iambic pentameter is definitely an advantage for this monologue. Using only ten syllables gives the poem a concise, simple, and poetic flow for the monologue. This method of writing provides flow, rhythm, and continuity to this monologue. The technique of rhyming also provides musicality for this piece of writing. He often pairs up words such as \u201cnight, bright, sight\u201d, \u201cstand, hand\u201d and \u201cear, dear\u201d. He often uses luminous adjectives to portray this woman as his light, his salvation, and his profound romance. His rich adjectives provide the reader a sense of her profusion of beauty.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36009774","dateCreated":"1300313193","smartDate":"Mar 16, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"meladovelado","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/meladovelado","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1317260331\/meladovelado-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36009774"},"dateDigested":1531974097,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Melanie Velado","description":"Shakespeare\u2019s monologue \u201cO, She Doth Teach The Torches To Burn Bright\u201d initiates by depicting a woman who has the power and potential to \u201cteach the torches how to burn bright\u201d. He also compares this woman lights with the brightness of a rich jewel standing out against the cheek of colored person. He argues that her beauty is too outstanding for the world, and that she is so pretty that she shouldn\u2019t be buried when she dies. Because of her radiant beauty, she transcends, unlike other women. After describing her gorgeousness, he says that he will grab this woman\u2019s beautiful and delicate hands compared to his rough and \u201crude\u201d hands. Finally, he confesses that his eyes were blind because he had never seen true beauty before this night\u2026 when he met this lovely and incomparable woman.
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\nUsing the technique of the iambic pentameter is definitely an advantage for this monologue. Using only ten syllables gives the poem a concise, simple, and poetic flow for the monologue. This method of writing provides flow, rhythm, and continuity to this monologue. The technique of rhyming also provides musicality for this piece of writing. He often pairs up words such as \u201cnight, bright, sight\u201d, \u201cstand, hand\u201d and \u201cear, dear\u201d. He often uses luminous adjectives to portray this woman as his light, his salvation, and his profound romance. His rich adjectives provide the reader a sense of her profusion of beauty.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"36066488","body":"Good Melanie,
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\nCould you just provide a concluding sentence to this, please?
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1300385357","smartDate":"Mar 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"36075458","body":"- The using the method of iambic pentameter definitely has various advantages, which fill Shakespear's writing with richness.<\/li><\/ul>","dateCreated":"1300392985","smartDate":"Mar 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"meladovelado","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/meladovelado","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1317260331\/meladovelado-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"36078206","body":"
- Using the method of iambic pentameter definitely has various advantages that fill Shakespear's writing with a lot of richness<\/li><\/ul>","dateCreated":"1300395703","smartDate":"Mar 17, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"meladovelado","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/meladovelado","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1317260331\/meladovelado-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"35957838","dateCreated":"1300242219","smartDate":"Mar 15, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"pjoaristi321","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/pjoaristi321","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/35957838"},"dateDigested":1531974098,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Paulina Joaristi","description":"Romeo is indeed crazily in love or he simply idolizes this woman. He compares her to a piece of jewelry, one that stands out from all the rest, for her radiance and blaze. He says her beauty stands out like a piece of jewelry against the cheek of an African (\u201cEthiope\u2019s \u201c), providing a stark contrast with their dark complexion. This woman could be the light to the darkness. Her exquisiteness is too good to be true, it is practically inhuman, and it would be a crime to bury her. He realizes he had never been in love before, and had never been bewildered by a beauty like hers. He even mentions that maybe he had never seen true beauty before. The desire to touch her with his uneven hands after the dance is more than what he can take.
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\n Shakespeare and Iambic Pentameter go hand by hand when we refer to his masterpieces. He used this type of method because it gave his writings a certain flow and a sense of rhythm that grasped the readers\u2019 attention. The clear noticeable pattern his used to stress the most important lines of the dialogue and to have a greater effect on the reader, for example his strong words at the end of the sentences \u201c night, light, sight\u201d make it the focal point. At the same time we get the idea of a theme and the ability to interpret the characters feelings. By the end of the paragraph we clearly can identify that Romeo is in love with his mental image of Juliet but in reality he doesn\u2019t know her and all there is appears to be a physical attraction.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"35978320","body":"Good Paulina,
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\nThanks... you don't have to change anything, but remember: when we write about literature we write about it in the present tense. Make sure you keep this in mind when you hand in your paper next week.
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1300286479","smartDate":"Mar 16, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"35947564","dateCreated":"1300233523","smartDate":"Mar 15, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"SolSpier","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/SolSpier","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/35947564"},"dateDigested":1531974098,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Sol Spier","description":"Act 1 Scene 1
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\nIn this passage, Romeo is describing a beautiful woman he just set sight on. He describes her beauty as supernatural. She shines brighter than a torch, he says, a torch would appear dim next to her. Her mere presence can light a dark room, turn something dull into something glorious. Romeo says that she stands out from all the other girls in the room "a snowy dove trooping with crows". Romeo then plans their encounter; he will watch where she stands, and then touch grab her hand, he explains. Then, with their hands entwined, they will fall in love.
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\n The use of the iambic pentameter is purely beneficial to this piece of writing. It is not only about creating 10 syllable verses, but about giving the writing musicality and rhythm. Along with imagery and metaphors, Shakespeare works in the iambic pentameter, creating a beautiful piece of writing. "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! \/ It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night" The metaphors employed simply add the the beauty of the iambic pentameter. Besides making the verses sound better, the iambic pentameter makes the text a little difficult to read. This could be seen as a negative aspect of the iambic pentameter, but really, it is positive; it pushes the reader to read more carefully, and therefore reach a deeper level of the text. It keeps the mind alert, and forces the reader to analyze what he or she is reading. The use of the Iambic Pentameter is the beauty of Shakespeare's writing; it is what distinguishes it from any other piece of writing.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"35978216","body":"Good Sol,
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1300286349","smartDate":"Mar 16, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"35869566","dateCreated":"1300144842","smartDate":"Mar 14, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"negrasolano","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/negrasolano","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1222961550\/negrasolano-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/35869566"},"dateDigested":1531974098,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"nicole solano","description":"Shakespeare describes Juliet waiting for her nurse who had left at nine o clock. Three hours had already gone past the time Juliet expects her to come. Since she said she would be back in half an hour. Juliet though to herself how slow the nurse was, or could it be that she had not found him. Messengers fueled by the passion and fire of love should be thoughts, which can move with the speed faster that the light of the ever burning sun. Her passion is so strong that nothing can be put in her way to stop her. This is the way doves carry Venus with such hurry, and this is why Cupid is blessed with powerful wings that let him fly as fast as the wind. If the nurse had any compassion, feeling or passion, Juliet\u2019s message would travel as fast as a bouncing ball, not like the nurse since she is so old and could probably be dead. Juliet\u2019s love messages would bounce right back to her since Romeo is so full of life in comparison to the nurse.
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\nShakespeare\u2019s use of iambic pentameter is a beneficial concept. The point could have not been made with the same input without the use of iambic pentameter. The use of this method gives the poem life, creating flow and rhythm making it easier for the reader to catch on to the story. The same point could have not been put across without iambic pentameter since iambic pentameter is not all about fitting in 10 syllabuses in a verse, but digging deeper. For example \u201clove, and dead\u201d love is seen as something new, young, and passionate. In the other hand, the nurse is described as being dark, sluggish and dead, because of her lack of passion and enthusiasms. Romeo and Juliet are the hidden factors of \u201clove\u201d as the nurse of \u201cdeath\u201d. Also, for instance the use of concrete objects, like the hill, ball, wings, blood, shows a theme in the poem. Time is another important theme which is shown with the emphasis of the last words of the verses. Using iambic pentameter brings many advantages since the way it is created gives the reader more information about the poem, which is like reading between the lines.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"35978132","body":"Nicole,
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\nThanks, this is good.
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1300286258","smartDate":"Mar 16, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":true},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}