{"id":1934,"date":"2008-03-04T19:19:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T00:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/joining-the-deities-demigods\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T00:19:10","slug":"joining-the-deities-demigods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/joining-the-deities-demigods","title":{"rendered":"Joining the Deities &#038; Demigods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Gygax, co-developer of Dungeons &amp; Dragons, <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/TECH\/03\/04\/obit.gygax.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">has died at the age of 69<\/a>. I spent a lot of time playing D&amp;D as a kid\/teenager (along with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Car_Wars\" target=\"_blank\">Car Wars<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Villains_%26_Vigilantes\" target=\"_blank\">Villains &amp; Vigilantes<\/a>); I bet a lot of my readers did, too. I haven&#8217;t played in 20 years, but the news of his death just deflated me.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, when we were all coming up with responses for my <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/exit-ghost\/\" target=\"_blank\">Exit, Ghost post<\/a>, we managed to omit GG from the pantheon. (I&#8217;m looking at you, <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/exit-ghost\/#comment-43473\" target=\"_blank\">Scharf<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reason\/HitandRun\/~3\/245692370\/125308.html\" target=\"_blank\">More here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Gygax, co-developer of Dungeons &amp; Dragons, has died at the age of 69. I spent a lot of time playing D&amp;D as a kid\/teenager (along with Car Wars and Villains &amp; Vigilantes); I bet a lot of my readers did, too. I haven&#8217;t played in 20 years, but the news of his death just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/joining-the-deities-demigods\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joining the Deities &#038; Demigods&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-vc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}