{"id":5581,"date":"1999-07-19T02:08:37","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/2-10-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:36:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:36:56","slug":"2-10-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/2-10-html\/","title":{"rendered":"2.10.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2.10<\/strong>.  A man was brought before a tribal chief, who<br \/>\nasked him a question.  If he had known the answer, he probably would have<br \/>\ndied.  He didn&#8217;t, and lived. (MWD original)<\/p>\n<p>2.10 answer:  The native chief asked him, &#8220;What is the third baseman&#8217;s<br \/>\nname in the Abbot and Costello routine &#8216;Who&#8217;s on First&#8217;?&#8221;  The man, who had<br \/>\nno idea, said &#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; the correct answer.  However, he was a major<br \/>\nsmartass, so if he had known the answer he would have pointed out that What<br \/>\nwas the <em>second<\/em> baseman&#8217;s name.  The chief, being quite humorless,<br \/>\nwould have executed him on the spot.  This is fairly silly, but I like it<br \/>\ntoo much to remove it from the list.<\/p>\n<p>2.10 variant answer:  The question was, &#8220;What does the tattoo on my<br \/>\ndaughter&#8217;s tush say?&#8221; or any other question whose answer reveals that you<br \/>\nknow more than you should. Of course, for this sort of question one can lie<br \/>\nand say one doesn&#8217;t know even if one does.  (FF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2.10. A man was brought before a tribal chief, who asked him a question. If he had known the answer, he probably would have died. He didn&#8217;t, and lived. (MWD original) 2.10 answer: The native chief asked him, &#8220;What is the third baseman&#8217;s name in the Abbot and Costello routine &#8216;Who&#8217;s on First&#8217;?&#8221; The man, [&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-5581","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5581","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=5581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15841,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5581\/revisions\/15841"}],"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=5581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}