{"id":5570,"date":"1999-07-19T02:08:23","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-87-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:36:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:36:51","slug":"1-87-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-87-html\/","title":{"rendered":"1.87.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.87<\/strong>.  A man is returning from Switzerland by train.  If<br \/>\nhe had been in a non-smoking car he would have died.  (DVS; MC wording)<\/p>\n<p>1.87 answer:  The man used to be blind; he&#8217;s now returning from an eye<br \/>\noperation which restored his sight.  He&#8217;s spent all his money on the<br \/>\noperation, so when the train (which has no internal lighting) goes through a<br \/>\ntunnel he at first thinks he&#8217;s gone blind again and almost decides to kill<br \/>\nhimself.  Fortunately, the light of the cigarettes people are smoking<br \/>\nconvinces him that he can still see.<\/p>\n<p>1.87a.  Variant: A man dies on a train he does not ordinarily catch.<\/p>\n<p>1.87a answer:  The man (a successful artist) has had an accident in which<br \/>\nhe injured his eyes.  His head is bandaged and he has been warned not to<br \/>\nremove the bandages under any circumstances lest the condition be<br \/>\nirreversibly aggravated.  He catches the train home from the hospital and<br \/>\ncannot resist peeking.  Seeing nothing at all (the same train-in-tunnel<br \/>\nsituation as above obtains, but without the glowing cigarettes this time),<br \/>\nhe assumes he is blinded and kills himself in grief.  I like this version a<br \/>\nlot, except that it makes much less sense that he&#8217;d be traveling alone.<br \/>\n(from Bernd Wechner)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.87. A man is returning from Switzerland by train. If he had been in a non-smoking car he would have died. (DVS; MC wording) 1.87 answer: The man used to be blind; he&#8217;s now returning from an eye operation which restored his sight. He&#8217;s spent all his money on the operation, so when the train [&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-5570","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5570","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=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15830,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5570\/revisions\/15830"}],"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=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}