{"id":2,"date":"2011-11-11T21:01:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T21:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dmdavid.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2014-11-13T09:43:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T15:43:35","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dmdavid.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dmdavid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DM_David_in_action.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-996\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dmdavid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DM_David_in_action.jpg?resize=353%2C458\" alt=\"DM David in action\" width=\"353\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dmdavid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DM_David_in_action.jpg?w=353&amp;ssl=1 353w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dmdavid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DM_David_in_action.jpg?resize=231%2C300&amp;ssl=1 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/a>Back in 1977, in my school lunchroom, I overheard some boys at the next table talking about a game where your character went into a dungeon, battled monsters, and gained experience that made him even better.<\/p>\n<p>The concept electrified me.<\/p>\n<p>Later at home, I opened the telephone book, and started calling hobby shops until I found a distant, magical store with a copy of <em>Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/em> on the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I&#8217;ve experimented with <em>Traveler<\/em>, <em>Runequest<\/em>, The <em>Fantasy Trip<\/em>, and <em>GURPS<\/em>. I&#8217;ve run virtually rules-free games, and designed my own homebrew RPG.<\/p>\n<p>Third edition lured me back to my first gaming love of <em>Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You can find me now serving as dungeon master a weekly D&amp;D encounters session, occasional Adventurers\u2019 League games, and judging at the big gaming conventions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1977, in my school lunchroom, I overheard some boys at the next table talking about a game where your character went into a dungeon, battled monsters, and gained experience that made him even better. The concept electrified me. Later at home, I opened the telephone book, and started calling hobby shops until I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P447DO-2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmdavid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmdavid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmdavid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmdavid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmdavid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dmdavid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/dmdavid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmdavid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}