{"id":254,"date":"2005-12-22T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=254"},"modified":"2010-01-11T00:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T00:00:20","slug":"more-importantly-you-have-to-give-a-shit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/12\/more-importantly-you-have-to-give-a-shit.html","title":{"rendered":"More importantly, you have to give a shit."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/g2\/story\/0,3604,1672293,00.html\">Some people seem to think that special intelligence is required to do cryptic crosswords.<\/a> This is sad, because it creates a barrier between them and one of life&#8217;s few remaining harmless pleasures. To enjoy reading a chess column, you need to have a chess mind. With bridge, you have to be good enough at mental arithmetic to be able to count up to 13 four times simultaneously (once for each suit)&#8230;  But with cryptic crosswords all you need is the sort of amateur detective&#8217;s mind that does not take things at face value.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">Actually, all you need is a good memory for all the stupid, arbitrary rules that have no cultural significance for anyone under 120 years old and which make the puzzles so hateful:<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">Also, &#8220;actor&#8221; may equal &#8220;tree&#8221; (because of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who died in 1917)&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Amateur detective, my arse. I much prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldmanmurray.com\/news\/259.html\">the motherfucking magic of cramagrams<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people seem to think that special intelligence is required to do cryptic crosswords. This is sad, because it creates a barrier between them and one of life&#8217;s few remaining harmless pleasures. To enjoy reading a chess column, you need to have a chess mind. With bridge, you have to be good enough at mental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3717,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}