{"id":9979,"date":"2026-02-23T13:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=9979"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:36:40","slug":"wheel-of-fortune-sparks-outrage-over-controversial-final-round-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=9979","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019 Sparks Outrage Over Controversial Final Round Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"101\">Another \u201cWheel of Fortune\u201d controversy!<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"103\" data-end=\"426\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">On the February 14 episode, viewers slammed the final-round puzzle as unfair\u2014and even questioned if it was a real phrase. Contestant Conner Kemmsies, a commercial pilot from Lakeside, California, had earned $19,080 in cash and prizes, including a six-day Baja whale-watching cruise, before facing the disputed bonus puzzle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Another \u201cWheel of Fortune\u201d controversy! On the February 14 episode, viewers slammed the final-round puzzle as unfair\u2014and even questioned if it was a real phrase. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=9979\" title=\"\u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019 Sparks Outrage Over Controversial Final Round Puzzle\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9981,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979\/revisions\/9981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}