{"id":620,"date":"2011-05-23T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.williams.edu\/Morgan\/?p=620"},"modified":"2012-02-18T21:01:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T02:01:58","slug":"riddling-back-to-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/2011\/05\/23\/riddling-back-to-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Riddling Back to the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Riddle 1.<\/em> If you take a cab to the airport at 3:30 am Sunday morning and you get stuck in a traffic jam, where are you?<br \/>\n<em>Answer.<\/em> In Manila.<br \/>\n<em>Riddle 2.<\/em> If you take a direct flight from Manila to Detroit, why do you go through security twice?<!--more--><br \/>\n<em>Answer.<\/em> When you stop in Nagoya, Japan, you have to get off the plane and take everything with you through security again. (In airline parlance, &#8220;direct&#8221; does not mean &#8220;nonstop.&#8221;)<br \/>\n<em>Riddle 3<\/em>. What do they do if you leave a CD on your seat on the plane?<br \/>\n<em>Answer.<\/em> They throw it away.<br \/>\n<em>Riddle 4.<\/em> Why do you change your money back in the US?<br \/>\n<em>Answer.<\/em> First of all because you can&#8217;t use pesos in the US. Second of all, because if you start with a cab at 3:30 am in Manila nothing&#8217;s open, and if you try to change it in Japan you have to change pesos to yen first and pay two commissions.<br \/>\n<em>Riddle 5.<\/em> Why doesn&#8217;t the day change when you cross the 180 meridian of longitude?<br \/>\n<em>Answer.<\/em> Because the date line doesn&#8217;t follow the meridian exactly.<br \/>\n<em>Riddle 6.<\/em> Why doesn&#8217;t the day change when you cross the date line?<br \/>\n<em>Answer.<\/em> Because you cross at midnight (if you start with a cab at 3:30 am in Manila).<br \/>\n<em>Riddle 7.<\/em> Where should they have the best avocado ice cream?<br \/>\n<em>Answer.<\/em> Granada, Spain, where it is a traditional delicacy.<br \/>\n<em>Riddle 8.<\/em> Where do they have the best avocado ice cream?<br \/>\n<em>Answer.<\/em> In Manila.<br \/>\n<em>Riddle 9.<\/em> What is the most popular ice cream in Manila?<br \/>\n<em>Answer.<\/em> Queso (the Tagalog word for cheese, from the Spanish).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riddle 1. If you take a cab to the airport at 3:30 am Sunday morning and you get stuck in a traffic jam, where are you? Answer. In Manila. Riddle 2. If you take a direct flight from Manila to Detroit, why do you go through security twice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14043],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}