{"id":2095,"date":"2008-03-07T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2008-03-07T01:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T09:17:00","slug":"the-die-is-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"The Die Is Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_Gygax\">Gary Gygax<\/a> (creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dungeons_%26_Dragons\">Dungeons &#038; Dragons<\/a>) died this week.<\/p>\n<p>Given my many nerdy ramblings, perhaps it will not surprise you to hear that throughout my teenage years (and beyond), the pursuit of adventure and treasure, via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tabletop_role-playing_game\">tabletop RPGs<\/a>, took up a significant amount of my free time.<\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s for you, Gary!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/natural20web.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/natural20web.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Gygax (creator of Dungeons &#038; Dragons) died this week. Given my many nerdy ramblings, perhaps it will not surprise you to hear that throughout my teenage years (and beyond), the pursuit of adventure and treasure, via tabletop RPGs, took up a significant amount of my free time. This one&#8217;s for you, Gary! click above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ego-raging","category-j-ho-originals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}