{"id":1160,"date":"2010-04-23T22:03:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2010-04-23T22:05:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T21:05:24","slug":"beat-the-bodycombe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1160","title":{"rendered":"Beat the Bodycombe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It started out as a Question Too Esoteric For Only Connect by Des Elmes.<\/p>\n<p>It has evolved INTO A MONSTER. And still <strong>Only Connect<\/strong> question editor David Bodycombe can&#8217;t solve it. Yeah, taste of your own medicine, David.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re playing along at home and you still haven&#8217;t solved it, in which case DUH, here is a complete list of the clues given:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Knight<\/li>\n<li>Aerial<\/li>\n<li>Oscilloscope<\/li>\n<li>Scottish Flag<\/li>\n<li>An upward pointing arrow<\/li>\n<li>A compass rose<\/li>\n<li>Some tortoises mating<\/li>\n<li>A triple-coloured river<\/li>\n<li>A thistle<\/li>\n<li>St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral<\/li>\n<li>A ship pointing westward<\/li>\n<li>A chevron<\/li>\n<li>Four letters in 2&#215;2 arrangement<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0slightly colourful, slightly gibbous moon<\/li>\n<li>A 3d parallelogram turned slightly to the side with two lines running through it horizontally, conjoining in the middle.<\/li>\n<li>A spinning star<\/li>\n<li>A sort of Venn diagram in black and white<\/li>\n<li>A cake<\/li>\n<li>A lot of triangles on a flag<\/li>\n<li>Hexagons and a leopard&#8217;s head.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There can&#8217;t be many more, but if you&#8217;ve worked out the connection and can think of any other ones, feel free to add them.<\/p>\n<p>Unless he&#8217;s been secretly taking the piss all afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started out as a Question Too Esoteric For Only Connect by Des Elmes. It has evolved INTO A MONSTER. And still Only Connect question editor David Bodycombe can&#8217;t solve it. Yeah, taste of your own medicine, David. So if you&#8217;re playing along at home and you still haven&#8217;t solved it, in which case DUH,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1160\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-that-are-a-bit-too-esoteric-for-only-connect"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-iI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}