{"id":185,"date":"2007-02-22T16:07:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T21:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2007-12-13T12:32:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T16:32:47","slug":"geekiest-crossword-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Geekiest.  Crossword.  Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Kosbab of Mental_Floss became fluent in several synthetic languages in order to put together <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/4259\">this crossword puzzle<\/A>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In order to solve this crossword puzzle, you&#8217;ll need to know a bit of Klingon, Elvish, Furbish, Esperanto and a handful of other constructed languages. In fact, all of the solutions are in constructed languages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They helpfully include a &#8220;word bank&#8221; for those who haven&#8217;t mastered all of the tongues.  (I mean, sure, everybody knows Klingon, but who ever heard of Esperanto?)<P><I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Kosbab of Mental_Floss became fluent in several synthetic languages in order to put together this crossword puzzle. In order to solve this crossword puzzle, you&#8217;ll need to know a bit of Klingon, Elvish, Furbish, Esperanto and a handful of other constructed languages. In fact, all of the solutions are in constructed languages. They helpfully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}