{"id":5592,"date":"1999-07-19T02:08:50","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/2-20-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:37:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:37:01","slug":"2-20-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/2-20-html\/","title":{"rendered":"2.20.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2.20<\/strong>.  Joe wants to go home, but he can&#8217;t go home<br \/>\nbecause the man in the mask is waiting for him.  (AL wording)<\/p>\n<p>2.20 answer:  A baseball game is going on.  The base-runner sees the<br \/>\ncatcher waiting at home plate with the ball, and so decides to stay at third<br \/>\nbase to avoid being tagged out.<\/p>\n<p>2.20 variant answer:  Joe&#8217;s in the hospital.  He can&#8217;t go home, because<br \/>\nthe man in the mask is a surgeon waiting to remove his appendix.  (FF)<\/p>\n<p>2.20 variant answer:  Joe is a bee; the man in the mask is a<br \/>\nbeekeeper.<\/p>\n<p>2.20a.  Variant wording: Johnny is afraid to go home because of the man<br \/>\nin the mask.  (DW)<\/p>\n<p>2.20a answer:  Same.  The diminutive &#8220;Johnny&#8221; makes it sound like he&#8217;s a<br \/>\nlittle kid, nicely further obfuscating the issue.<\/p>\n<p>2.20b.  Variant: Two men are in a field.  One is wearing a mask.  The<br \/>\nother man is running towards him to avoid him.<\/p>\n<p>2.20b answer:  The same, but the catcher isn&#8217;t right at home plate; the<br \/>\nrunner is trying to get home before the catcher can.  (from Hal Lowery, by<br \/>\nway of Chris Riley)  This phrasing would allow the puzzle to migrate to<br \/>\nsection 1, but I don&#8217;t like it as much.<\/p>\n<p>2.20c.  Variant wording: Instead of &#8220;home,&#8221; say the man in the mask is<br \/>\nstanding on the corner.<\/p>\n<p>2.20c answer:  Same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2.20. Joe wants to go home, but he can&#8217;t go home because the man in the mask is waiting for him. (AL wording) 2.20 answer: A baseball game is going on. The base-runner sees the catcher waiting at home plate with the ball, and so decides to stay at third base to avoid being tagged [&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-5592","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5592","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=5592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15852,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5592\/revisions\/15852"}],"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=5592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}