{"id":5610,"date":"1999-07-19T02:09:22","date_gmt":"1999-07-19T02:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/2-6-html\/"},"modified":"2018-01-20T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T18:37:07","slug":"2-6-html","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/situation-puzzles\/answers\/2-6-html\/","title":{"rendered":"2.6.html"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2.6<\/strong>.  Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice all live in the<br \/>\nsame house.  Bob and Carol go out to a movie, and when they return, Alice is<br \/>\nlying dead on the floor in a puddle of water and glass.  It is obvious that<br \/>\nTed killed her but Ted is not prosecuted or severely punished.  (From<br \/>\n<cite>How Come?<\/cite>)<\/p>\n<p>2.6 answer:  Alice is a goldfish; Ted is a cat.  (Or a dog, since the<br \/>\nfish&#8217;s body is still there rather than eaten.)<\/p>\n<p>2.6a.  A very common variant uses the names Romeo and Juliet instead, to<br \/>\nfurther mislead audiences.  For example: Romeo is looking down on Juliet&#8217;s<br \/>\ndead body, which is on the floor surrounded by water and broken glass.<br \/>\n(AC)<\/p>\n<p>2.6a answer:  Same.<\/p>\n<p>2.6b.  Minor variant: Tom and Jean lay dead in a puddle of water with<br \/>\nbroken pieces of glass and a baseball nearby.<\/p>\n<p>2.6b answer:  Tom and Jean are both fish; it was a baseball, rather than<br \/>\na cat, that broke their tank.  (from Mike Reymond)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2.6. Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice all live in the same house. Bob and Carol go out to a movie, and when they return, Alice is lying dead on the floor in a puddle of water and glass. It is obvious that Ted killed her but Ted is not prosecuted or severely punished. [&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-5610","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5610","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=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15870,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5610\/revisions\/15870"}],"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=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}