{"id":158,"date":"2007-08-13T09:06:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T13:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2007\/08\/13\/great-timing\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T09:06:49","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T13:06:49","slug":"great-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2007\/08\/13\/great-timing\/","title":{"rendered":"Great timing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a whole bunch to blog about our vacation, but I will have to get to that when I have more time.  I want to write about the funny thing that happened in the car last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>{Name a one word, 5 letter, 2 syllable movie title where the first syllable has a short i sound.  Change the short i sound to a long i sound to get a one word, 6 letter, 2 syllable movie title.}<\/p>\n<p>I listen to NPR shows as Podcasts.  One that Lord S and I like is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4473090\">Sunday Puzzle<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Will_Shortz\">Will Shortz<\/a>.  We listened to 3 weeks worth that I had saved up.  I figured out the answer to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=12508858\">last one<\/a> (very quickly mind you) and then realized I wouldn&#8217;t know the answer until we got off island and downloaded it.  Then we thought maybe we could flip around some NPR stations and listen for a while in case the show came on.<\/p>\n<p>I switched the radio tuner to our local NPR (static, we were at least 50 miles away) and then moved around the dial a little.  All of a sudden I heard Will Shortz&#8217;s voice and stopped.  He was saying the answer!  I caught the show (whose airtime I don&#8217;t actually know) at exactly the right moment to get the answer.  Not at the very beginning of the show when they are being introduced, not a minute into the show when they have started the game, but just at the moment Will Shortz says &#8220;and the answer is&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was very cool.<\/p>\n<p>I was right by the way.  {Sicko, Psycho)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a whole bunch to blog about our vacation, but I will have to get to that when I have more time. I want to write about the funny thing that happened in the car last Sunday. {Name a one word, 5 letter, 2 syllable movie title where the first syllable has a short <a href=\"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2007\/08\/13\/great-timing\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-people-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}