{"id":6261,"date":"2020-04-09T13:13:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T03:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/puzzlesaustralia.com.au\/?p=6261"},"modified":"2024-07-23T18:40:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T18:40:04","slug":"jigsaw-puzzles-deemed-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devu04.testdevlink.net\/Doug_Bouwhuis\/jigsaw-puzzles-deemed-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"Jigsaw puzzles absolutely essential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you turning your Puzzles Australia?<\/p>\n<p>As published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/commentary\/strewth\/pieces-of-the-jigsaw-puzzle\/news-story\/4894eab169dca752c80169d201d3bbc4\">Australian<\/a> the humble jigsaw is absolutely essential, according to <b>Scott Morrison.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s good and bad news for dissectologists (the official descriptor for puzzle lovers). The humble jigsaw is absolutely essential, according to <b>Scott Morrison<\/b>. \u201cOur kids are at home now, as are most kids, and <b>Jenny <\/b>went out yesterday and bought them a whole bunch of jigsaw puzzles,\u201d the PM said on Sunday. \u201cI can assure you, over the next few months we\u2019re going to consider those jigsaw puzzles absolutely essential.\u201d He\u2019s not alone. \u201cThey\u2019re the best,\u201d <b>Hugh Jackman <\/b>said during a 2018 live Instagram video, where he finished and then destroyed a 1500-piece Starry Night by <b>Vincent van Gogh<\/b>. But Quiet Australians may have trouble finding one.<\/p>\n<p>After telling journos his wife and two daughters are now living with him at the Lodge in Canberra, Morrison said: \u201cWe\u2019re keeping each other entertained, as I said the other day, we\u2019re doing lots of jigsaw puzzles. Jigsaw sales are soaring, I understand.\u201d Hobbyco says online sales are up 300 per cent. <b>Jackson Heenan<\/b>, stock controller at Mind Games Melbourne and online game retailer Gumnut.io, told the ABC an 18,000-piece Sistine Chapel puzzle (selling for about $350 and sitting in the shop for two years) sold in the past fortnight.<\/p>\n<p>Turn you Puzzles Australia the the whole family can enjoy and stay entertained for days! When in self isolation in Australia this is the perfect way to occupy your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you turning your Puzzles Australia? As published in the Australian the humble jigsaw is absolutely essential, according to Scott Morrison. There\u2019s good and bad news for dissectologists (the official&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[93,94,95],"class_list":["post-6261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog","tag-jigsaw-puzzles","tag-personalised-jigsaw-puzzles","tag-pictures-into-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devu04.testdevlink.net\/Doug_Bouwhuis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devu04.testdevlink.net\/Doug_Bouwhuis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devu04.testdevlink.net\/Doug_Bouwhuis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devu04.testdevlink.net\/Doug_Bouwhuis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devu04.testdevlink.net\/Doug_Bouwhuis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/devu04.testdevlink.net\/Doug_Bouwhuis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9492,"href":"https:\/\/devu04.testdevlink.net\/Doug_Bouwhuis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions\/9492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devu04.testdevlink.net\/Doug_Bouwhuis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devu04.testdevlink.net\/Doug_Bouwhuis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devu04.testdevlink.net\/Doug_Bouwhuis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}