{"id":5509,"date":"1999-07-19T02:07:12","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-31-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:36:33","slug":"1-31-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-31-html\/","title":{"rendered":"1.31.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.31<\/strong>.  A man gets onto an elevator.  When the elevator<br \/>\nstops, he knows his wife is dead.  (LA; partial KH wording)<\/p>\n<p>1.31 answer:  He&#8217;s leaving a hospital after visiting his wife, who&#8217;s on<br \/>\nheavy life-support.  When the power goes out, he knows she can&#8217;t live<br \/>\nwithout the life-support systems (he assumes that if the emergency backup<br \/>\ngenerator were working, the elevator wouldn&#8217;t lose power; this aspect isn&#8217;t<br \/>\nentirely satisfactory, so in a variant, the scene is at home rather than in<br \/>\na hospital).<\/p>\n<p>1.31a.  Variant: The music stops and a woman dies.<\/p>\n<p>1.31a answer:  The woman is confined in an iron lung, and the music is<br \/>\nplaying on her radio or stereo.  The power goes out.  (RW) (See also #1.59,<br \/>\n#1.70a, and #1.75c.)<\/p>\n<p>1.31b.  A man lives in a high-rise apartment building in the city.  One<br \/>\nday, as usual, he gets up, has breakfast, showers, dresses, kisses his wife<br \/>\ngood-bye, and leaves for work.  He walks down the corridor to the elevator.<br \/>\nAfter standing there for a minute or so, he realizes his wife is dead.<br \/>\n(RW)<\/p>\n<p>1.31b answer:  Same as #1.31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.31. A man gets onto an elevator. When the elevator stops, he knows his wife is dead. (LA; partial KH wording) 1.31 answer: He&#8217;s leaving a hospital after visiting his wife, who&#8217;s on heavy life-support. When the power goes out, he knows she can&#8217;t live without the life-support systems (he assumes that if the emergency [&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-5509","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5509","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=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15769,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5509\/revisions\/15769"}],"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=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}