{"id":553,"date":"2009-12-19T23:01:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T15:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=553"},"modified":"2013-11-19T16:31:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T08:31:14","slug":"puzzles-within-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2009\/12\/puzzles-within-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzles Within Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dan_brown_lost_symbol1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dan_brown_lost_symbol1.jpg\" alt=\"dan_brown_lost_symbol\" title=\"dan_brown_lost_symbol\" width=\"150\" height=\"198\" style=\"margin-right:8px;\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-490\" \/><\/a>Chapter 50, and we finally get to our first real puzzle. An interesting cypher.  I wonder if the Masons really used it.<\/p>\n<p>I am reminded of that movie <strong>Windtalkers<\/strong>, by John Woo.  It was about the Navajo Codebreakers from World War II.  It should have been a better movie than it was.<\/p>\n<p>Have you seen the movie <strong>Red Cliff<\/strong>?  The latest John Woo movie?  It is the closest I have ever come to walking out of a movie.  Do not see it.  It&#8217;s horrible.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m losing interest in <strong>The Lost Symbol<\/strong>.  A truly depressing turn of events.  I thought my vitriol would be whipped into a fury by now at the cliched writing and clunky plotting.  <\/p>\n<p>You remember how everyone was anticipating <strong>Snakes On A Plane<\/strong>, like it would be the greatest B movie ever, and it turned out to be a real disappointment?<\/p>\n<h5>Pages read: 201 <br \/>\nPages To Go: 308<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 50, and we finally get to our first real puzzle. An interesting cypher. I wonder if the Masons really used it. I am reminded of that movie Windtalkers, by John Woo. It was about the Navajo Codebreakers from World War II. It should have been a better movie than it was. Have you seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[593,423,590,595,592,589,588,421,591,594],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-codebreakers","tag-dan-brown","tag-john-woo","tag-mason","tag-navajo","tag-red-cliff","tag-snakes-on-a-plane","tag-the-lost-symbol","tag-windtalkers","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}