{"id":23745,"date":"2022-12-24T04:48:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T12:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=23745"},"modified":"2022-12-24T04:48:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T12:48:49","slug":"ny-times-sunday-crossword-puzzles-readers-with-swastika-shape-on-hanukkah-how-did-this-get-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/ny-times-sunday-crossword-puzzles-readers-with-swastika-shape-on-hanukkah-how-did-this-get-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Sunday crossword puzzles readers with swastika shape on Hanukkah: \u2018How did this get approved\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah began on Dec. 18 and will end the evening of Dec. 26<\/p>\n

The New York Times published a crossword puzzle on Sunday, the first day of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, that many readers thought was shaped like a Nazi Swastika.<\/p>\n

No one involved with the puzzle seemed to notice. In a Times column about the Sunday crossword, Caitlin Lovinger wrote, “I love the geometry in this puzzle \u2014 so many stair steps! \u2014 and feel that it contributes to a certain evenness in the solve.” Ryan McCarty, the puzzle\u2019s constructor, described the design as a “fun whirlpool shape.”<\/p>\n

But The Times was criticized heavily on Twitter by people across the political spectrum for what they thought what was clear to see.<\/p>\n

“[W]hy is The New York Times’ crossword a swastika?” Daily Wire senior writer Ryan Saavedra asked in a tweet.<\/p>\n

Keith Edwards, a Democratic strategist and Lincoln Project alum, tweeted, “This is the NYTimes crossword puzzle today on the first day of Hanukkah. What the hell, @nytimes?”<\/p>\n

“I personally believe swastikas shouldn\u2019t appear in the New York Times, intentionally or otherwise. Didn\u2019t think that would be a controversial take,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“I know that the @nytimes crossword wasn\u2019t intentionally laid out as a swastika so I guess the sin here is bad editing. How did this get approved without somebody noticing?” Sam Sokol, a reporter at Haaretz.com, tweeted.<\/p>\n

Read more at: www.foxnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah began on Dec. 18 and will end the evening of Dec. 26 The New York Times published a crossword puzzle on Sunday, the first day of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, that many readers thought was shaped like a Nazi Swastika. No one involved with the puzzle seemed to notice. In … Continue reading NY Times Sunday crossword puzzles readers with swastika shape on Hanukkah: \u2018How did this get approved\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-warning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6aZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23746,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23745\/revisions\/23746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}