{"id":748584,"date":"2013-04-26T09:53:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T13:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=75135"},"modified":"2013-04-26T12:27:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T16:27:53","slug":"ted-appears-in-the-ny-times-crossword-puzzle-new-yorkers-shouts-murmurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/748584","title":{"rendered":"TED appears in the NY Times crossword puzzle, New Yorker&rsquo;s Shouts &amp; Murmurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75137\" alt=\"TED-crossword\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/ted-crossword.jpg?w=780\"   \/>The TED office is abuzz about two high-profile mentions this week.<\/p>\n<p>First, we were excited to see ourselves included in <i>The New York Times<\/i> crossword puzzle for the third time on Thursday. The clue for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/crosswords\/game\/7039\/index.html\">12 down<\/a>: \u201c______ talks, offerers of \u2018ideas worth spreading.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We were also amused to see TEDx referenced in <i>The New Yorker<\/i>\u2019s Shouts &amp; Murmurs column. Called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/2013\/04\/29\/130429sh_shouts_brenner\">My recurring nightmares<\/a>,\u201d by Yoni Brenner, nightmare number two begins, \u201cBackstage at the Saskatchewan convention center, I\u2019m about to deliver an inspirational lecture on cosmetic dentistry for\u00a0tedxSaskatoon when I suddenly realize that not only do I not know the first thing about dentistry; I\u2019m also wanted by the Canadian authorities for outfitting a moose with a bowler hat, with the intent to teach him canasta.\u201d Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/2013\/04\/29\/130429sh_shouts_brenner\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<br \/>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/75135\/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/75135\/\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?resize=1%2C1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/qVStaP1eY0M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TED office is abuzz about two high-profile mentions this week. First, we were excited to see ourselves included in The New York Times crossword puzzle for the third time on Thursday. The clue for 12 down: \u201c______ talks, offerers of \u2018ideas worth spreading.\u2019\u201d We were also amused to see TEDx referenced in The New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38JW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}