{"id":5502,"date":"1999-07-19T02:07:05","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-25-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:36:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:36:32","slug":"1-25-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-25-html\/","title":{"rendered":"1.25.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.25<\/strong>.  A man is lying, dead, face down in the desert<br \/>\nwearing a backpack.  (This is different from #1.24, #2.2, and #2.12.)<\/p>\n<p>1.25 answer:  He jumped out of an airplane, but his parachute failed to<br \/>\nopen.  Minor variant wording (from Joe Kincaid): he&#8217;s on a mountain trail<br \/>\ninstead of in a desert.  Minor variant wording (from Mike Reymond): he&#8217;s got<br \/>\na ring in his hand (it came off of the ripcord).<\/p>\n<p>1.25 variant answer:  The man was let loose in the desert with a pack<br \/>\nfull of poisoned food.  He knows it&#8217;s poisoned, and doesn&#8217;t eat it &#8212; he<br \/>\ndies of hunger.  (from Mike Neergaard)<\/p>\n<p>1.25a.  Silly variant: same problem statement, with the addition that one<br \/>\nof the man&#8217;s shoelaces is untied.<\/p>\n<p>1.25a answer:  He pulled his shoelace instead of the ripcord.<\/p>\n<p>1.25b.  Variant wording: A man with a pack on his back enters a field and<br \/>\ndies.  (from David Norman)<\/p>\n<p>1.25b answer:  Same as #1.25.<\/p>\n<p>1.25c.  Variant wording: A dead man lies in front of the post office;<br \/>\nnext to him is a parcel.  (CB)<\/p>\n<p>1.25c answer:  Same as #1.25.  Can a parachute be called a &#8220;parcel&#8221;?<br \/>\nPerhaps &#8220;package&#8221; would be better.  (It&#8217;s &#8220;Paket&#8221; in the original<br \/>\nGerman.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.25. A man is lying, dead, face down in the desert wearing a backpack. (This is different from #1.24, #2.2, and #2.12.) 1.25 answer: He jumped out of an airplane, but his parachute failed to open. Minor variant wording (from Joe Kincaid): he&#8217;s on a mountain trail instead of in a desert. Minor variant wording [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":5484,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5502","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5502","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=5502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15762,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5502\/revisions\/15762"}],"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=5502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}