{"id":15259,"date":"2019-01-05T17:37:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T21:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15259"},"modified":"2019-01-05T21:43:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T01:43:15","slug":"grateful-for-pencils-with-erasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15259","title":{"rendered":"Grateful for Pencils With Erasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few months, I&#8217;ve been clipping crosswords out of <em>The New York Time<\/em>s but not solving them. I now have a large folder full of unsolved puzzles. So, because this has been bugging me, I decided to solve today&#8217;s puzzle rather than put it aside for later.<\/p>\n<p>My brain had gotten rusty, and it protested the sudden demand for intelligent thought. But I persisted, and it finally cooperated. My favorite answer\/clue combinations were a 6-letter word for &#8220;Museum installations&#8221; and a 3-letter word for &#8220;Labrador greeting&#8221; (answers in the comments section, to avoid spoilers). I am relieved that I can still solve the Saturday puzzle, but also grateful that my pencil had an eraser on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few months, I&#8217;ve been clipping crosswords out of The New York Times but not solving them. I now have a large folder full of unsolved puzzles. So, because this has been bugging me, I decided to solve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15259\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15259"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15263,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15259\/revisions\/15263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}