{"id":5485,"date":"1999-07-19T02:06:38","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-1-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:36:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:36:24","slug":"1-1-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-1-html\/","title":{"rendered":"1.1.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.1<\/strong>.  A man goes into a restaurant, orders abalone, eats<br \/>\none bite, and kills himself.  (TeM and JM wording)<\/p>\n<p>1.1 answer:  The man was in a ship that was wrecked on a desert island.<br \/>\nWhen there was no food left, another passenger brought what he said was<br \/>\nabalone but was really part of the man&#8217;s wife (who had died in the wreck).<br \/>\nThe man suspects something fishy, so when they finally return to<br \/>\ncivilization, he orders abalone, realizes that what he ate before was his<br \/>\nwife, and kills himself.  (In a slight variant, from <cite>Stories With<br \/>\nHoles<\/cite>, he simply faints rather than killing himself.)<\/p>\n<p>1.1a.  Variant: same problem statement but with albatross instead of<br \/>\nabalone.<\/p>\n<p>1.1a answer:  In this version, the man was in a lifeboat, with his wife,<br \/>\nwho died.  He hallucinated an albatross landing in the boat which he caught<br \/>\nand killed and ate; he thought that his wife had been washed overboard.<br \/>\nWhen he actually eats albatross, he discovers that he had actually eaten his<br \/>\nwife.<\/p>\n<p>1.1b.  Variant: A man kills himself rather than order albatross.<\/p>\n<p>1.1b answer:  The man already knew that he had eaten human flesh under<br \/>\nthe name &#8220;albatross.&#8221;  He asks the waiter in the restaurant what kind of<br \/>\nsoup is available, and the waiter responds, &#8220;Albatross soup.&#8221;  Thinking that<br \/>\n&#8220;albatross soup&#8221; means &#8220;human soup,&#8221; and sickened by the thought of such a<br \/>\nsociety (place in a foreign country if necessary), he kills himself.  (from<br \/>\nMike Neergaard)  I&#8217;m afraid this version doesn&#8217;t make a whole lot of<br \/>\nsense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.1. A man goes into a restaurant, orders abalone, eats one bite, and kills himself. (TeM and JM wording) 1.1 answer: The man was in a ship that was wrecked on a desert island. When there was no food left, another passenger brought what he said was abalone but was really part of the man&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":5484,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5485","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5625,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5485\/revisions\/5625"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}