{"id":5576,"date":"1999-07-19T02:08:31","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-92-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:36:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:36:53","slug":"1-92-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/1-92-html\/","title":{"rendered":"1.92.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.92<\/strong>.  A man is dead in a room with a small pile of<br \/>\npieces of wood and sawdust in one corner.  (from &#8220;Coroner&#8217;s Inquest,&#8221; by<br \/>\nMarc Connelly; earlier(?) from <cite>How Come?<\/cite>)<\/p>\n<p>1.92 answer:  The man is a blind midget, the shortest one in the circus.<br \/>\nAnother midget, jealous because he&#8217;s not as short, has been sawing small<br \/>\npieces off of the first one&#8217;s cane every night, so that every day he thinks<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s taller.  Since his only income is from being a circus midget, he<br \/>\ndecides to kill himself when he gets too tall.<\/p>\n<p>1.92 variant answer:  (slight) Instead of sawing pieces off of the<br \/>\nmidget&#8217;s cane, someone has sawed the legs off of his bed.  He wakes up,<br \/>\nstands up, and thinks he&#8217;s grown during the night.<\/p>\n<p>1.92 variant answer:  There were termites in his cane.<\/p>\n<p>1.92a.  Variant wording: If he had seen the sawdust, he would have lived.<br \/>\n(MJ)<\/p>\n<p>1.92a answer:  Same.<\/p>\n<p>1.92b.  Variant: A pile of sawdust, no net, a man dies.<\/p>\n<p>1.92b answer:  A midget is jealous of the clown who walks on stilts. He<br \/>\nsaws partway through the stilts; the clown walks along and falls and dies<br \/>\nwhen they break.  (from Peter R. Olpe)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.92. A man is dead in a room with a small pile of pieces of wood and sawdust in one corner. (from &#8220;Coroner&#8217;s Inquest,&#8221; by Marc Connelly; earlier(?) from How Come?) 1.92 answer: The man is a blind midget, the shortest one in the circus. Another midget, jealous because he&#8217;s not as short, has been [&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-5576","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5576","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=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15836,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5576\/revisions\/15836"}],"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=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}