{"id":207,"date":"2002-02-28T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-28T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2002-02-28T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-28T18:40:00","slug":"207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Cruciverbalists run amok? <em>The New Yorker<\/em> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/printable\/?fact\/020304fa_FACT\">interesting story<\/a> about crosswords and the people what love &#8217;em:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Joshua Kosman, a classical-music critic for the San Francisco <em>Chronicle<\/em>, is a typical attendee. &#8220;The past fifteen years, for me, has been a process of sinking into, codifying, and coming to terms with the fact that this is what I do. That I&#8217;m a puzzle guy,&#8221; he told me. Then he cut to the chase: &#8220;Did you know that Britney Spears has signed a big endorsement deal with Pepsi? That&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s true, and we are all very happy about it. You see, &#8216;Pepsi-Cola&#8217; is an anagram of &#8216;Episcopal&#8217; and &#8216;Britney Spears&#8217; is an anagram of &#8216;Presbyterians.&#8217; &#8221; He paused to let this sink in, but my reaction wasn&#8217;t quite what he had hoped for. &#8220;Yeah, I know,&#8221; he said. &#8221; &#8216;Episcopal&#8217; is singular, and &#8216;Presbyterians&#8217; is plural. But we take what we can get.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Found through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aldaily.com\/\">Arts &#038; Letters Daily<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cruciverbalists run amok? The New Yorker has an interesting story about crosswords and the people what love &#8217;em: Joshua Kosman, a classical-music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, is a typical attendee. &#8220;The past fifteen years, for me, has been a process of sinking into, codifying, and coming to terms with the fact that this &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=207\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}