{"id":7144,"date":"2010-11-22T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7144"},"modified":"2010-11-22T03:00:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T08:00:30","slug":"the-cryptic-kryptos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7144","title":{"rendered":"The Cryptic Kryptos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/21\/us\/21code.html\">Clues to Stubborn Secret in C.I.A.\u2019s Backyard<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jim Sanborn, the sculptor who created \u201cKryptos\u201d and its puzzles, is getting a bit frustrated by the wait. \u201cI assumed the code would be cracked in a fairly short time,\u201d he said, adding that the intrusions on his life from people who think they have solved his fourth puzzle are more than he expected.<\/p>\n<p>So now, after 20 years, Mr. Sanborn is nudging the process along. He has provided The New York Times with the answers to six letters in the sculpture\u2019s final passage. The characters that are the 64th through 69th in the final series on the sculpture read NYPVTT. When deciphered, they read BERLIN.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clues to Stubborn Secret in C.I.A.\u2019s Backyard Jim Sanborn, the sculptor who created \u201cKryptos\u201d and its puzzles, is getting a bit frustrated by the wait. \u201cI assumed the code would be cracked in a fairly short time,\u201d he said, adding &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7144\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}