{"id":993,"date":"2008-03-10T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=993"},"modified":"2009-11-19T13:53:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T20:53:19","slug":"gygax-in-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/gygax-in-the-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Gygax in <em>The Independent<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/03\/independent_logo.jpg\" alt=\"independent_logo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/exit-the-dragon-master-793150.html\">Here&#8217;s a nice article<\/a> in London&#8217;s <em>Independent<\/em> on the recently deceased co-creator of Dungeons &amp; Dragons, and I&#8217;m not just saying that because I get name-checked in it. Money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>D&amp;D, in the popular imagination, is for geeks, the nerds, the unpopular kids at school, the ones whose mothers fed them in their bedrooms, otherwise they wouldn&#8217;t eat: losers, fit only to be sneered at by the cool kids.<\/p>\n<p>But the geeks are now running the world, while the cool kids are sitting in vast fluorescent hangars in post-industrial hardship zones, calling you on behalf of Capital One in connection with your account; or wondering if you&#8217;d like fries with that.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the 1970s, before PCs, Gygax was the uncool kids&#8217; saviour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a nice article in London&#8217;s Independent on the recently deceased co-creator of Dungeons &amp; Dragons, and I&#8217;m not just saying that because I get name-checked in it. Money quote: D&amp;D, in the popular imagination, is for geeks, the nerds, the unpopular kids at school, the ones whose mothers fed them in their bedrooms, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7474,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/7474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}