{"id":952,"date":"2008-03-04T13:19:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T21:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/04\/goodbye-gary\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T13:19:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T21:19:44","slug":"goodbye-gary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/04\/goodbye-gary\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Gary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><center>D&#038;D Rulebook Photo<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/03\/dnd-rulebook.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of D&#038;D Rule Book\" \/><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons &#038; Dragons <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080304\/ap_en_ot\/obit_gygax_5\" target=\"_blank\" >passed away today at age 69<\/a>. He had apparently been ill for some time and finally succumbed to that illness in his Wisconsin home.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMr. Gygax had a big influence on my life since I spent a fair amount of (wasted?) time playing D &#038; D and immersing myself in a fantasy world with other malcontents. It was fun, it got me out of the house, and I&#8217;m grateful for the social life it provided in those awkward pre-teen years. There have been many innovations since, but Gygax really is the father of the role playing realm. He will be remembered fondly by many people like me.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D&#038;D Rulebook Photo Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons &#038; Dragons passed away today at age 69. He had apparently been ill for some time and finally succumbed to that illness in his Wisconsin home. Mr. Gygax had a big influence on my life since I spent a fair amount of (wasted?) time playing D [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}