{"id":3397,"date":"2019-04-12T10:58:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T16:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:58:28","slug":"crossword-puzzle-shenanigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2019\/04\/12\/crossword-puzzle-shenanigan\/","title":{"rendered":"crossword puzzle shenanigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHM_Library\/status\/1116672562467983360\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3398\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2019\/04\/memo.jpg\" alt=\"memo\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2019\/04\/memo.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2019\/04\/memo-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2019\/04\/memo-896x1024.jpg 896w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2019\/04\/memo-768x878.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2019\/04\/memo-624x713.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/a>According to a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHM_Library\/status\/1116672562467983360\">NHM tweet<\/a>, staff at the Natural History branch of the British Museum were apparently helping too many people with crossword puzzles in the 1930s and had to be told to stop.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Steve Lawson!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent NHM tweet, staff at the Natural History branch of the British Museum were apparently helping too many people with crossword puzzles in the 1930s and had to be told to stop. Thanks, Steve Lawson! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-SN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3897,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions\/3897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}