View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you write crossword puzzles for a living, you have some additional options how to let them know about your terminal disease. \u00a0Very cool. Embedded Link Crossword author uses puzzle to reveal he’s dying Long-time crossword puzzle builder John Graham (aka Araucaria) is dying of esophageal cancer and used a crossword puzzle in the Gu … Continue reading “Breaking bad news to your readers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130134,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/06\/4-across-plagiarize.html","url_meta":{"origin":32272,"position":0},"title":"4 Across: PLAGIARIZE","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-Mar-16 6:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't necessarily suspect Timothy Parker. I suspect whomever he's sourcing crossword puzzles from. A Plagiarism Scandal Is Unfolding In The Crossword World A group of eagle-eyed puzzlers, using digital tools, has uncovered a pattern of copying in the professional crossword-puzzle world that has led to accusations of plagiarism and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12108,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/16\/travel_time.html","url_meta":{"origin":32272,"position":1},"title":"Travel Time","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Nov-07 12:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And ... Yay, an empty crossword puzzle in the flight mag....","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","block_context":{"text":"Travel","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/travel"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2367\/2037721719_63323e77c9.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9471,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/29\/sudoku_vs_cross.html","url_meta":{"origin":32272,"position":2},"title":"Sudoku vs. Cross-words","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 29-Jun-06 11:09am","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting New York Magazine article on the modern evolution of cross-word puzzles -- and the challenge they face, popularity-wise, from newcomer numeric Sudoku puzzles. I'm not a heavy-duty cross-worder --...","rel":"","context":"In "Gaming"","block_context":{"text":"Gaming","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gaming"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2071,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/17\/home_again_home.html","url_meta":{"origin":32272,"position":3},"title":"Home again, home again, jiggedy-jig","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 17-Mar-02 4:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Made it back home from Orlando with nary a problem, except that I ran out of book and had to do the crossword puzzle in the flight magazine. I slept...","rel":"","context":"In "Personal"","block_context":{"text":"Personal","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22668,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/13\/unblogged-bits-tue-13-sep-11-2330.html","url_meta":{"origin":32272,"position":4},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 13-Sep-11 2330)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Sep-11 11:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... Arizona Ruins GOP Primary Schedule - Okay, this should be entertaining. (Ditto if we see similar shenanigans on the Dem side.) Greed and self-interest is really not its own reward - Socialist! A chance\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Potpourri"","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9238,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/03\/puzzling_names.html","url_meta":{"origin":32272,"position":5},"title":"Puzzling names","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Aug-06 2:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because in the world of puzzle publishing -- red hot in this era of Sudoku --it's all about marketing. A personal story about this marketing mania: Earlier this year, my...","rel":"","context":"In "Gaming"","block_context":{"text":"Gaming","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gaming"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}