{"id":2,"date":"2022-09-12T23:28:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T23:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliogrids.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:34:19","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About the Constructor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Thanks for checking out my site! I\u2019m Brian Callahan, a Chicago-based crossword constructor and puzzlemaker. I began making crosswords for this site toward the end of 2022. Although I don’t publish as frequently as I did then, I still post new grids when inspiration strikes.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My non-blog puzzles have been featured in the Los Angeles Times<\/a>, New York Times<\/a>, Andrews McMeel Universal Syndicate<\/a>, American Values Club Crossword<\/a>, Defector<\/a>, USA Today<\/a>, and Puzzmo<\/a> (among many other places!). You can check out my full list of publications here<\/a>. In addition to constructing, I also edit crosswords and mentor up-and-coming constructors over at Lil AVC X<\/a>. And as of November 2025, I’m making the daily Pair-A-Phrases<\/a> puzzle at GoComics.com<\/a>. I’d love it if you checked it out!<\/p>

Outside of puzzling, I like to travel, jog, follow Chicago sports, and spend time with my wife, Caroline, and our little terrier-mix, Penny. Bonus doggo pic below.\ud83d\udc36<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks for checking out my site! I\u2019m Brian Callahan, a Chicago-based crossword constructor and puzzlemaker. I began making crosswords for this site toward the end of 2022. Although I don’t publish as frequently as I did then, I still post new grids when inspiration strikes. My non-blog puzzles have been featured in the Los Angeles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliogrids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}