{"id":5539,"date":"1999-07-19T02:07:47","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-59-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:36:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:36:42","slug":"1-59-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-59-html\/","title":{"rendered":"1.59.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.59<\/strong>.  Music stops and a woman dies.  (DVS)<\/p>\n<p>1.59 answer:  The woman is a tightrope walker in a circus.  Her act<br \/>\nconsists of walking the rope blindfolded, accompanied by music, without a<br \/>\nnet.  The musician (organist, or calliopist, or pianist, or whatever) is<br \/>\nsupposed to stop playing when she reaches the end of the rope, telling her<br \/>\nthat it&#8217;s safe to step off onto the platform.  For unknown reasons (but with<br \/>\nmurderous intent), he stops the music early, and she steps off the rope to<br \/>\nher death.<\/p>\n<p>1.59 variant answer:  The woman is a character in an opera, who &#8220;dies&#8221; at<br \/>\nthe end of her song.<\/p>\n<p>1.59 variant answer:  The &#8220;woman&#8221; is the dancing figure atop a music box,<br \/>\nwho &#8220;dies&#8221; when the box runs down.  (Both of the above variants would<br \/>\nprobably require placing this puzzle in section 2 of the list.)  (See also<br \/>\n#1.31a, #1.70a, and #1.75c.)<\/p>\n<p>1.59a.  A woman is murdered in front of hundreds of people, but they all<br \/>\nthink it&#8217;s an accident.  (From <cite>How Come?<\/cite>)<\/p>\n<p>1.59a variant answer:  The woman is a trapeze artist who times her act<br \/>\n(from starting time to time to jump for another trapeze) by the music.  The<br \/>\norganist changes tempo or stops the music too soon, and the trapeze artist<br \/>\nfalls to her death.<\/p>\n<p>1.59b.  Variant: Charlie died when the music stopped.<\/p>\n<p>1.59b answer:  Charlie was an insect sitting on a chair; the music<br \/>\nplaying was for the game Musical Chairs.  (from Bob Philhower)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.59. Music stops and a woman dies. (DVS) 1.59 answer: The woman is a tightrope walker in a circus. Her act consists of walking the rope blindfolded, accompanied by music, without a net. The musician (organist, or calliopist, or pianist, or whatever) is supposed to stop playing when she reaches the end of the rope, [&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-5539","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5539","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=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15799,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5539\/revisions\/15799"}],"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=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}