{"id":3070,"date":"2012-06-25T12:20:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T17:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2012-06-25T12:20:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T17:20:59","slug":"the-riddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2012\/06\/25\/the-riddler\/","title":{"rendered":"The riddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ava is off at camps at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willowwind.org\/docs\/file\/WWSummer11FINAL2.pdf\">her former kindergarten<\/a> this week.  This morning, as I was slathering her with sunscreen, she asked me to come up with a riddle that would prepare her for her &#8220;Brain Busters&#8221; camp today.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSo I wrote down <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimloy.com\/puzz\/sphinx0.htm\">the riddle of the Sphinx<\/a> and sent her off to think about it.  I checked in with her after a couple minutes and was surprised that she&#8217;d surmised that the four-legged stage was a crawling baby and the two-legged stage was a walking person.  She was stumped by the three legs, but since she was clearly on the right path, she was pleased to learn the full answer to the riddle.  I hope Ava doesn&#8217;t come home from camp with any riddles that&#8217;re too tough for her old man to solve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ava is off at camps at her former kindergarten this week. This morning, as I was slathering her with sunscreen, she asked me to come up with a riddle that would prepare her for her &#8220;Brain Busters&#8221; camp today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-Nw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3071,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions\/3071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}