{"id":5507,"date":"1999-07-19T02:07:10","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-3-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:36:33","slug":"1-3-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-3-html\/","title":{"rendered":"1.3.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.3<\/strong>.  A man sitting on a park bench reads a newspaper<br \/>\narticle headlined &#8220;Death at Sea&#8221; and knows a murder has been committed.<br \/>\n(from <cite>How Come?<\/cite>)<\/p>\n<p>1.3 answer:  The man is a travel agent.  He had sold someone two tickets<br \/>\nfor an ocean voyage, one round-trip and one one-way.  The last name of the<br \/>\nman who bought the tickets is the same as the last name of the woman who<br \/>\n&#8220;fell&#8221; overboard and drowned on the same voyage, which is the subject of the<br \/>\narticle he&#8217;s reading.  This may have derived from a story done by Alfred<br \/>\nHitchcock, if the following Hitchcock quotation is accurate: &#8220;If you take<br \/>\nyour wife on a sea voyage, buy her a round-trip ticket no matter what your<br \/>\nplans may be.&#8221;  According to <cite>How Come?<\/cite>, it&#8217;s loosely based on<br \/>\nthe real-life case of a killer named Henry Landru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.3. A man sitting on a park bench reads a newspaper article headlined &#8220;Death at Sea&#8221; and knows a murder has been committed. (from How Come?) 1.3 answer: The man is a travel agent. He had sold someone two tickets for an ocean voyage, one round-trip and one one-way. The last name of the man [&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-5507","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5507","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=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15767,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5507\/revisions\/15767"}],"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=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}