{"id":5596,"date":"1999-07-19T02:08:55","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/2-24-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:37:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:37:04","slug":"2-24-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/2-24-html\/","title":{"rendered":"2.24.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2.24<\/strong>.  A newspaper reported that Jacques Dubois finished<br \/>\nfirst in a race held in France.  His average speed was given, correctly, as<br \/>\n19,475 km\/hour.  (DA, from an idea by AR and Richard Fowell)<\/p>\n<p>2.24 answer:  In European numbers, the comma is used the same way<br \/>\nAmericans use a decimal point.  The man thus (Americans would say) ran<br \/>\n19.475 km\/hour, which is a pretty good speed at which to run a<br \/>\nstandard-length (42.195 km) marathon.  I assume most Europeans seeing this<br \/>\nitem would ask &#8220;So where&#8217;s the puzzle?&#8221;, but it might be a good puzzle for<br \/>\nAmericans.  Thanks to Dmitry for providing a more palatable version than the<br \/>\nversion that languished for years in my outtakes file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2.24. A newspaper reported that Jacques Dubois finished first in a race held in France. His average speed was given, correctly, as 19,475 km\/hour. (DA, from an idea by AR and Richard Fowell) 2.24 answer: In European numbers, the comma is used the same way Americans use a decimal point. The man thus (Americans would [&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-5596","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5596","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=5596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15856,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5596\/revisions\/15856"}],"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=5596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}