{"id":24311,"date":"2025-01-21T12:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T17:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24311"},"modified":"2025-01-24T16:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T21:37:45","slug":"christmas-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24311","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24313\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_20250119_022221.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24313\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_20250119_022221-266x350.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Puzzle\" width=\"266\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_20250119_022221-266x350.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_20250119_022221-777x1024.jpg 777w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_20250119_022221-768x1012.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_20250119_022221-1166x1536.jpg 1166w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_20250119_022221.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christmas Puzzle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of my mom&#8217;s friends (whom I&#8217;ve known basically all my life) offered to give us a stack of puzzles. And by stack, I mean 35 or 40 of them. They are mostly 500 piece puzzles, which are a little easier then the 1,000 piece puzzles we normally do, but that&#8217;s not a problem. This is the first of those that we&#8217;ve done. In addition to the somewhat larger piece size, this one also had more unusual piece shapes, which for me makes a puzzle that much easier, because I look for pieces as much by shape as by the picture.<\/p>\n<p>As you may or may not know, our family has this thing where we don&#8217;t look at the picture while we&#8217;re doing a puzzle. That makes it a little more challenging but it also gives us that much more satisfaction when we finish it.<\/p>\n<p>This puzzle was missing a piece, as you can see about a third of the way up from the bottom a few &#x2018;columns&#x2019; in from the left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my mom&#8217;s friends (whom I&#8217;ve known basically all my life) offered to give us a stack of puzzles. And by stack, I mean 35 or 40 of them. They are mostly 500 piece puzzles, which are a little easier then the 1,000 piece puzzles we normally do, but that&#8217;s not a problem. This &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24311\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[3686,2734,2202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24316,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24311\/revisions\/24316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}