{"id":9449,"date":"2015-12-13T20:17:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T01:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=9449"},"modified":"2015-12-20T09:05:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T14:05:34","slug":"two-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=9449","title":{"rendered":"Two Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9451\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_20151213_115836.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9451\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_20151213_115836-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Hubble&#039;s Galaxy Puzzle and Kepler&#039;s Planetary Puzzle\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9451\" data-wp-pid=\"9451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_20151213_115836-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_20151213_115836-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_20151213_115836-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_20151213_115836-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_20151213_115836.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hubble&#8217;s Galaxy Puzzle and Kepler&#8217;s Planetary Puzzle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy gave me these two puzzles for my birthday. I do enjoy puzzles and these were quite nice. The first that I tried, on the right, was labeled as Kepler&#8217;s Planetary Puzzle. Apparently it is more properly known as a Chuck puzzle, invented in 1897 by Edward Nelson. It is a form of Burr puzzle, a three-dimensional puzzle of interlocking pieces, often made of wood. This was a bit tricky but I managed to get it back together in about a half hour. The second, on the left, was labeled as Hubble&#8217;s Galaxy Puzzle and that took me a little longer. It took nearly an hour, with the first 45 minutes or so being trial and error (mostly error). Once I figured it out, it took another 15 minutes or so to actually get all the pieces together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy gave me these two puzzles for my birthday. I do enjoy puzzles and these were quite nice. The first that I tried, on the right, was labeled as Kepler&#8217;s Planetary Puzzle. Apparently it is more properly known as a Chuck puzzle, invented in 1897 by Edward Nelson. It is a form of Burr puzzle, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=9449\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449"}],"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=9449"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9459,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9449\/revisions\/9459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}