{"id":4420,"date":"2004-01-27T12:45:22","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2016-02-12T12:47:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T16:47:59","slug":"puzzling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=4420","title":{"rendered":"Puzzling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20040127puzzle1.jpg\" alt=\"20040127puzzle1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20040127puzzle1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20040127puzzle1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Originally posted on the website Continuum&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>PUZZLING&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any idea how long it has been since I sat down and worked on a puzzle? I don&#8217;t either. It&#8217;s been that long.<\/p>\n<p>The photo above is a puzzle I started last night. It&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/warholfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Warhol<\/a> painting of a Campbell&#8217;s soup can. He did a whole series soup cans. The actual paintings are quite large. I saw them a few years ago at MoMA. I went to the museum with a girl who grew up in mainland China. The soup cans were displayed on a big wall. As we stood before the paintings, she was puzzled and asked, &#8220;Why would someone paint soup cans?&#8221; I didn&#8217;t know what to say? &#8220;Because&#8230; you know&#8230; He&#8217;s Andy Warhol&#8230; It&#8217;s modern art&#8230; This is America&#8230; and we like soup?&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warholstars.org\/andy_warhol_soup_can.html\" target=\"_blank\">HERE is an article about the possibilities of the origin of the soup cans.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>As we continue to arrange our new home, we are going to make a retro cafe\/lounge in part of the dining room. We have been tossing around ideas of lava lamps and shag carpeting. T thinks the puzzle would look good framed and mounted on the wall in the cafe. I agree.<\/p>\n<p>Now below is a photo of a puzzle that my mom gave me for Christmas. &#8220;The World&#8217;s Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle&#8221; Over 500 pieces. Double-sided. Smiley faces??? I have a sneaky suspicion that I won&#8217;t smile much while attempting to put this puzzle together. This may be the puzzle that ruins it all for me, as it ironically smiles at me and taunts me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20040127puzzle2.jpg\" alt=\"20040127puzzle2\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20040127puzzle2.jpg 375w, https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20040127puzzle2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 85vw, 375px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on the website Continuum&#8230;) PUZZLING&#8230; Do you have any idea how long it has been since I sat down and worked on a puzzle? I don&#8217;t either. It&#8217;s been that long. The photo above is a puzzle I started last night. It&#8217;s an Andy Warhol painting of a Campbell&#8217;s soup can. He did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=4420\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Puzzling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continuum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4421,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions\/4421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}