{"id":1260,"date":"2006-06-30T20:30:50","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T20:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2006-06-30T20:30:50","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T20:30:50","slug":"four_letters_we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1260","title":{"rendered":"Four Letters; “Web-Based Journal”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I subscribe to the Sunday New York Times, but I’ve never paid much attention to the crossword puzzle.  I didn’t grow up doing puzzles, partly because they strictly existed in pen-and-paper format and weren’t accessible to me without someone else’s assistance.  But after seeing Wordplay<\/A> with a friend last night, I’m considering shelling out a few bucks for a subscription to the electronic NYT Crossword Section<\/A>.  I have no delusions about being able to complete the Sunday puzzle, but I’m fairly confident that I could do a Monday or Tuesday puzzle without embarrassing myself.  And perhaps by perfecting my crossword skills, I will win favor with my lord and liege, Jon Stewart<\/A>, a renowned puzzle freak.  <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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And speaking of the Times, here’s an op-ed piece from today’s edition by my friend Erik Lundegaard<\/A> in which he responds to a somewhat trivial criticism of the new Superman film from the political right.    <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I subscribe to the Sunday New York Times, but I’ve never paid much attention to the crossword puzzle.  I didn’t grow up doing puzzles, partly because they strictly existed in pen-and-paper format and weren’t accessible to me without someone else’s assistance.  But after seeing Wordplay with a friend last night, I’m considering shelling out a […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-kk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}