{"id":5510,"date":"1999-07-19T02:07:14","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-32-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:36:33","slug":"1-32-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-32-html\/","title":{"rendered":"1.32.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.32<\/strong>.  A man is killed on a train.  He is found to have<br \/>\nwritten &#8220;elf&#8221; on the floor in his own blood.  (MB, from &#8220;The Problem of the<br \/>\nLocked Caboose,&#8221; by Edward D. Hoch)<\/p>\n<p>1.32 answer:  Attached to the train was a caboose with a safe carrying a<br \/>\nshipment of jewels.  The victim, Schmidt, was the conductor guarding the<br \/>\nshipment; he had robbed the safe himself, and had an accomplice traveling on<br \/>\nthe train under a false name to remove the loot.  The accomplice killed<br \/>\nSchmidt to keep his share.  Schmidt didn&#8217;t know the accomplice&#8217;s false name,<br \/>\nso he wrote the killer&#8217;s berth number, 11.  For greater clarity he spelled<br \/>\nout the number as a word &#8212; in his native German.  (In the original story he<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t want &#8220;11&#8221; to be misread as two parallel lines, but Germans don&#8217;t<br \/>\nwrite &#8220;1&#8221; as a straight line.) This arguably belongs in section 2 for double<br \/>\nmeaning, but the double-meaninged word here is explicitly called out, so I&#8217;m<br \/>\ngoing to leave it in section 1 for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.32. A man is killed on a train. He is found to have written &#8220;elf&#8221; on the floor in his own blood. (MB, from &#8220;The Problem of the Locked Caboose,&#8221; by Edward D. Hoch) 1.32 answer: Attached to the train was a caboose with a safe carrying a shipment of jewels. The victim, Schmidt, was [&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-5510","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5510","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=5510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15770,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5510\/revisions\/15770"}],"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=5510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}