{"id":425,"date":"2003-08-01T16:45:47","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T20:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/08\/01\/a-new-breed-of-puzzle-hunts\/"},"modified":"2003-08-01T16:45:47","modified_gmt":"2003-08-01T20:45:47","slug":"a-new-breed-of-puzzle-hunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/08\/01\/a-new-breed-of-puzzle-hunts\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Breed of Puzzle Hunts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a174'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A plethora of fun awaits those&nbsp;bereft of the <STRONG>baggage<\/STRONG> of religion, family duties, patriotic struggle, and political intrigue.&nbsp; Somewhere in-between <STRONG>trainspotting<\/STRONG> and carving a living out of a hostile <STRONG>wilderness<\/STRONG> lie the modern cornucopiae of puzzle hunts.&nbsp; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanchallenge.com\/schedule\/index.shtml\">Some<\/A> are <A href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/11.08\/start.html?pg=8\">star-caliber<\/A>.&nbsp; And hey, the Boston race wasn&#8217;t too long ago&#8230;&nbsp; Meanwhile, if you&#8217;re interested in this winter&#8217;s <A href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/~puzzle\/\">Mystery Hunt<\/A>, let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plethora of fun awaits those&nbsp;bereft of the baggage of religion, family duties, patriotic struggle, and political intrigue.&nbsp; Somewhere in-between trainspotting and carving a living out of a hostile wilderness lie the modern cornucopiae of puzzle hunts.&nbsp; Some are star-caliber.&nbsp; And hey, the Boston race wasn&#8217;t too long ago&#8230;&nbsp; Meanwhile, if you&#8217;re interested in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-gang"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}