{"id":5559,"date":"1999-07-19T02:08:11","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-77-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:36:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:36:47","slug":"1-77-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-77-html\/","title":{"rendered":"1.77.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.77<\/strong>.  A woman buys a new pair of shoes, goes to work,<br \/>\nand dies.  (DM)<\/p>\n<p>1.77 answer:  The woman is the assistant to a (circus or sideshow)<br \/>\nknife-thrower.  The new shoes have higher heels than she normally wears, so<br \/>\nthat the thrower misjudges his aim and one of his knives kills her during<br \/>\nthe show.<\/p>\n<p>1.77a.  Variant: A woman sees her husband entering a certain place of<br \/>\nbusiness and insists on dissolving their partnership.  (originally from<br \/>\n<cite>How Come &#8212; Again?<\/cite>)<\/p>\n<p>1.77a answer:  The husband is a knife-thrower; the woman is his assistant<br \/>\nas well as his wife.  She sees him going into an optometrist&#8217;s office and<br \/>\ndecides that if he&#8217;s having trouble with his eyes she doesn&#8217;t want him<br \/>\nthrowing knives at her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.77. A woman buys a new pair of shoes, goes to work, and dies. (DM) 1.77 answer: The woman is the assistant to a (circus or sideshow) knife-thrower. The new shoes have higher heels than she normally wears, so that the thrower misjudges his aim and one of his knives kills her during the show. [&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-5559","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5559","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=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15819,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5559\/revisions\/15819"}],"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=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}