{"id":5595,"date":"1999-07-19T02:08:54","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/2-23-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:37:03","slug":"2-23-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/2-23-html\/","title":{"rendered":"2.23.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2.23<\/strong>.  As a man jumps out of a window, he hears the<br \/>\ntelephone ring and regrets having jumped.  (from &#8220;Some Days are Like That,&#8221;<br \/>\nby Bruce J. Balfour; partial JM wording)<\/p>\n<p>2.23 answer:  This is a post-holocaust scenario of some kind; for<br \/>\nwhatever reason, the man believes himself to be the last human on earth.  He<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t want to live by himself, so he jumps, just before the telephone<br \/>\nrings&#8230;  (of course, it could be a computer calling, but he has no way of<br \/>\nknowing).<\/p>\n<p>2.23 variant answer:  A real-world version (with less plausible<br \/>\nmotivation) has the man being &#8220;lonely and despondent&#8221; and hoping for phone<br \/>\ncalls but not receiving any; he finally jumps out the window in despair.<br \/>\n(From <cite>Stories With Holes<\/cite>.)<\/p>\n<p>2.23a.  Variant wording: The phone rang, and he regretted what he had<br \/>\ndone.  (TRF)<\/p>\n<p>2.23a answer:  Same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2.23. As a man jumps out of a window, he hears the telephone ring and regrets having jumped. (from &#8220;Some Days are Like That,&#8221; by Bruce J. Balfour; partial JM wording) 2.23 answer: This is a post-holocaust scenario of some kind; for whatever reason, the man believes himself to be the last human on earth. [&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-5595","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5595","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=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15855,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5595\/revisions\/15855"}],"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=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}