{"id":5641,"date":"2025-01-19T13:17:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T21:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2025-01-19T13:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T21:17:33","slug":"what-to-do-with-your-completed-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=5641","title":{"rendered":"What to do with your completed puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jigsaw puzzles are an interesting type of object &#8211; once you&#8217;ve completed one, you don&#8217;t really want to keep it around.  Would you ever want to re-do the same puzzle?  But it&#8217;s probably in perfectly good condition.  So, you can donate it to a charity, or if you are fortunate, you might be able to take it to a <a href=\"https:\/\/corvallisbenton.librarycalendar.com\/event\/puzzle-swap-20716\">puzzle swap, like this one held at our local library on January 11, 2025<\/a>.  Bring as many as you want, take as many as you want!  <\/p>\n<p>I think this is a brilliant idea.  I got to take 3 puzzles in and came home with two, one of which I&#8217;ve already eagerly started working on.  &#8220;America&#8217;s National Parks&#8221; is a fantastic 1000-piece puzzle, complex enough to have interesting detail but no huge stretches of black\/boring areas.  I think it would be fun to do in a group since each person could have their own quest to fill in a particular park&#8217;s poster.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3106.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3106-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"America&#039;s National Parks jigsaw puzzle\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3106-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3106-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3106-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_3106.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know of a puzzle swap nearby, maybe you could suggest it to your library or a community center.  Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jigsaw puzzles are an interesting type of object &#8211; once you&#8217;ve completed one, you don&#8217;t really want to keep it around. Would you ever want to re-do the same puzzle? But it&#8217;s probably in perfectly good condition. So, you can donate it to a charity, or if you are fortunate, you might be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5641"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5648,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}