{"id":261,"date":"2010-02-04T09:12:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2010-02-04T09:12:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:12:26","slug":"puzzle-133-old-uncle-freds-tech-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/2010\/02\/04\/puzzle-133-old-uncle-freds-tech-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle #133: Old Uncle Fred&#8217;s Tech Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><applet mayscript name=\"CrossYYYs\" code=\"com.beekeeper.xwd.CrossYYYsApplet\" codebase=\".\" archive=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/CrossYYYsApplet.jar\" height=\"461\" width=\"560\"><param name=\"puzzle\" value=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/OldUncleFred.puz\"><param name=\"singleClueColumn\" value=\"true\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/OldUncleFred.puz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Puzzle #133\" src=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/OldUncleFred-small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/applet><\/p>\n<p>When my family heard I&#8217;d been having computer trouble, they immediately sent Uncle Fred to take a look.  You see, Fred&#8217;s &#8217;bout 90 years old and they say he can fix anything.  If you&#8217;ve got a shotgun with a bad barrel, he can fix &#8216;er up good as new.  If you&#8217;ve got a &#8217;57 Chevy with a bad carburetor, Fred&#8217;ll have it purrin&#8217; like a kitten.  If those dang kids have broken the dial on your TV set, he&#8217;ll jigger up a replacement, no problem.  I&#8217;m not so sure he&#8217;ll do as well with my Windows PC, though.  You see, last I heard, Fred still thinks a vacuum tube is an attachment for his Electrolux&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: Old Uncle Fred&#8217;s Tech Support<br \/>\n<strong>Difficulty<\/strong>: Thursday<br \/>\n<strong>Download<\/strong>: <a title=\"Across Lite puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/OldUncleFred.puz\">Across Lite<\/a> or <a title=\"PNG image puzzle\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/OldUncleFred-large.png\" target=\"_blank\">printable PNG<\/a> (w\/ <a title=\"PNG image solution\" href=\"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/puzzles\/OldUncleFred-solution.png\" target=\"_blank\">solution<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my family heard I&#8217;d been having computer trouble, they immediately sent Uncle Fred to take a look. You see, Fred&#8217;s &#8217;bout 90 years old and they say he can fix anything. If you&#8217;ve got a shotgun with a bad barrel, he can fix &#8216;er up good as new. If you&#8217;ve got a &#8217;57 Chevy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beekeeperlabs.com\/xwdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}