{"id":1042,"date":"2009-04-09T09:19:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T09:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:12:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:12:43","slug":"dave-arneson-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"Dave Arneson, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two people with their names on the first ever version of Dungeons and Dragons. Just over one year ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.additiverich.com\/morgue\/archives\/002342.html\">Gary Gygax died<\/a>. Now <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_Arneson\">Dave Arneson<\/a> has joined him.<br \/>\nThis one won&#8217;t earn obituaries in newspapers all over the world. Arneson never had a high profile, but he was the guy who put it together first, who assembled the technology that would become the role-playing game.<br \/>\nThe RPG world has lost a swathe of its early creative powerhouses in the last eighteen months. Like them, Arneson will be remembered in the most appropriate way &#8211; through play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two people with their names on the first ever version of Dungeons and Dragons. Just over one year ago, Gary Gygax died. Now Dave Arneson has joined him. This one won&#8217;t earn obituaries in newspapers all over the world. Arneson never had a high profile, but he was the guy who put it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1042\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dave Arneson, RIP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-also"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-gO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}