{"id":434,"date":"2008-03-04T14:58:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T19:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/434"},"modified":"2008-03-04T15:11:46","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T20:11:46","slug":"gary-gygax-1938-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/434\/gary-gygax-1938-2008","title":{"rendered":"Gary Gygax (1938-2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_Gygax\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='\/wp-content\/gygax_small.jpg' alt='Gary Gygax' class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>In Memoriam: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_Gygax\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Gygax (1938-2008)<\/a>, co-creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dungeons_%26_Dragons\" target=\"_blank\">Dungeons &#038; Dragons<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stop a moment and think about the profound influence <em>Dungeons &#038; Dragons<\/em> had on computer RPGs and MUDs.  It&#8217;s immeasurable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Memoriam: Gary Gygax (1938-2008), co-creator of Dungeons &#038; Dragons. Stop a moment and think about the profound influence Dungeons &#038; Dragons had on computer RPGs and MUDs. It&#8217;s immeasurable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,13,42,21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-memorials","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}