{"id":117,"date":"2005-03-05T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-05T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=117"},"modified":"2009-12-31T16:54:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T16:54:38","slug":"if-dan-brown-were-a-rapper-hed-be-on-remand-by-now-never-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/03\/if-dan-brown-were-a-rapper-hed-be-on-remand-by-now-never-mind.html","title":{"rendered":"If Dan Brown were a rapper he&#8217;d be on remand by now. Never mind."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">AN extortionist who threatened to kill building workers unless they received a $50 million ransom from construction giant Multiplex used a 400-year-old code to communicate with the company. The Vigenere Code \u2013 made famous recently by best-selling novel <em>The Da Vinci Code<\/em> \u2013 was invented in 1586 and not broken until 1860.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">The extortionist has been communicating with Multiplex via newspaper ads. It appears the extortionist, who threatened to kill crane drivers unless he was paid the ransom by Tuesday, made the company use the code to communicate with him.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailytelegraph.news.com.au\/story.jsp?sectionid=1258&amp;storyid=2755342\"><em>The Daily Telegraph<\/em><\/a> yesterday deciphered the message, which appeared as a public notice in The Weekend Australian on February 19.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN extortionist who threatened to kill building workers unless they received a $50 million ransom from construction giant Multiplex used a 400-year-old code to communicate with the company. The Vigenere Code \u2013 made famous recently by best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code \u2013 was invented in 1586 and not broken until 1860. The extortionist has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}