{"id":119,"date":"2020-06-15T19:34:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T19:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jklcrosswords.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2022-01-09T12:21:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T17:21:47","slug":"puzzle-17-words-on-the-street-with-laura-braunstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jklcrosswords.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/15\/puzzle-17-words-on-the-street-with-laura-braunstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle 17: Words on the Street (with Laura Braunstein)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Crossword puzzles can feel frivolous even in the best of times. I get a few hours of enjoyment (and frustration) from creating them, and I hope all of you get at least a few minutes of enjoyment from solving them, but we\u2019re not exactly changing the world. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people around the world are out there protesting and are<\/em> changing the world, and the least we can do is help them out. And while this puzzle offers moral support to Black Lives Matter, it can\u2019t offer any concrete support. For that, I encourage you to join protests (while wearing a mask and keeping six feet away from your fellow marchers), lobby your officials, and, especially, donate money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d love to be able to offer you some bonus puzzles in return for donating, but that would require me to actually have<\/em> more puzzles available, and if that were the case I wouldn’t have gone six months without posting a puzzle here. Luckily, a bunch of other people do have extra puzzles to send you in return for your donations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n