{"id":1285,"date":"2003-08-27T01:27:28","date_gmt":"2003-08-27T05:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/27\/rubiks-cube-world-championship\/"},"modified":"2003-08-27T01:27:28","modified_gmt":"2003-08-27T05:27:28","slug":"rubiks-cube-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/27\/rubiks-cube-world-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubik&#8217;s Cube World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a793'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"147\" height=\"181\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/\ncube-anim.gif\" width=\"143\" height=\"142\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"10\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"366\">\n<p>A San Francisco man has won the resurrected Rubik&#8217;s Cube<br \/>\n        World Championships in Toronto. <\/p>\n<p>        Dan Knights, a 24-year-old software developer, beat dozens of other competitors<br \/>\n    by solving the puzzle in an average time of 20.2 seconds. <\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t do the damn thing when I was a kid, and I still can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_813121.html?menu=news.quirkies\">here is the article from Ananova<\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rubiks.com\/cube_online.html\">here is a real, live Shockwave<br \/>\n      Rubiks Cube<\/a> Knock yourself out<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A San Francisco man has won the resurrected Rubik&#8217;s Cube World Championships in Toronto. Dan Knights, a 24-year-old software developer, beat dozens of other competitors by solving the puzzle in an average time of 20.2 seconds. I couldn&#8217;t do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/27\/rubiks-cube-world-championship\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}