{"id":166343,"date":"2022-08-11T07:45:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T12:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=166343"},"modified":"2022-08-11T07:45:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T12:45:27","slug":"todays-puzzle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-puzzle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_166344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166344\" style=\"width: 529px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beady.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beady.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"529\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166344\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beady.jpg 529w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/beady-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 85vw, 529px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-166344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(via <a href=\"https:\/\/grouchyoldcripple.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denny Wilson<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>1. What method or device is named in the illustration?<\/p>\n<p>2. Which band was the more ominous sign of a decaying culture? (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2021\/09\/abba-immortal\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hint<\/a>.<span id='easy-footnote-1-166343' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-puzzle-2\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-166343' title='I have a personal grudge against ABBA. Years ago, my music notation software was &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Igor_Engraver&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Igor Engraver&lt;\/a&gt;, which was capable and easy to use and, initially, free. However, it was never ported to Mac OS 10. An updated version was announced over ten years ago, but it never materialized. Nowadays I write directly in Logic and use &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/musescore.org\/en&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;MuseScore&lt;\/a&gt; if other people will need to see the printed music, but it would have been nice to keep working in Igor. I can&amp;#8217;t open any of my old Igor files. It&amp;#8217;s no great loss \u2014 little I wrote was much good \u2014 but sometimes I would like to see what I did back then.&lt;\/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus of ABBA purchased the company that developed Igor 15 or 20 years ago and is still one of the owners. I blame him for failing to keep Igor current.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. What method or device is named in the illustration? 2. Which band was the more ominous sign of a decaying culture? (Hint.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-humor-and-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-HgX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166351,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166343\/revisions\/166351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}