{"id":5594,"date":"1999-07-19T02:08:52","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/2-22-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:37:03","slug":"2-22-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/2-22-html\/","title":{"rendered":"2.22.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2.22<\/strong>.  A woman meets the king, cries &#8220;Pain!&#8221;, and loses<br \/>\nconsciousness.  (MI original)<\/p>\n<p>2.22 answer:  True story: in France, shortly after the fall of the<br \/>\nBastille, food shortages became a problem again.  A mob of people went to<br \/>\nVersaille to petition the king to do something about the problem.  A small<br \/>\ndelegation was admitted to meet the king.  One woman, overcome with emotion,<br \/>\ncould only cry &#8220;Pain&#8221; (French for &#8220;bread&#8221;) and faint. (Source: Durant,<br \/>\n<cite>The Age of Napoleon<\/cite>, pg. 25)  Note that this only works in<br \/>\nprinted form, not aloud, because the French word is pronounced more like<br \/>\nEnglish &#8220;pan&#8221; than like English &#8220;pain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2.22 variant answer:  Nine months earlier, this woman had been<br \/>\nimpregnated by the previous king, who died soon afterword.  Now, she is<br \/>\ngiving birth to the new king.  (TV)<\/p>\n<p>2.22a.  A man enters a store.  After a short pause, he says &#8220;pain.&#8221;  The<br \/>\nstorekeeper is confused, but then becomes annoyed.  (JC original)<\/p>\n<p>2.22a answer:  The shopkeeper is a French baker.  An American tourist<br \/>\nwalks into the bakery, pauses to look up\/remember the word for &#8220;bread&#8221; in<br \/>\nFrench, which is spelled &#8220;pain.&#8221;  The American says the word as if it were<br \/>\nthe English word &#8220;pain.&#8221;  At first the shopkeeper does not understand what<br \/>\nthe American is saying.  When he does, he gets annoyed with the person&#8217;s<br \/>\nhorrible pronunciation.  (He then becomes happy after realizing that he can<br \/>\ncharge whatever exorbitant amount he wishes because the American doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\nknow any better.)  I may eventually make this one the main entry and #2.22<br \/>\nthe variant, since this version works better aloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2.22. A woman meets the king, cries &#8220;Pain!&#8221;, and loses consciousness. (MI original) 2.22 answer: True story: in France, shortly after the fall of the Bastille, food shortages became a problem again. A mob of people went to Versaille to petition the king to do something about the problem. A small delegation was admitted to [&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-5594","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5594","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=5594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15854,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5594\/revisions\/15854"}],"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=5594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}