{"id":2605,"date":"2007-12-26T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2007\/12\/26\/dd-for-dummies\/"},"modified":"2010-03-07T00:02:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T04:02:46","slug":"dd-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2007\/12\/26\/dd-for-dummies\/","title":{"rendered":"D&#038;D for Dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe kids these days are not that bright. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dungeons-Dragons-Dummies-Bill-Slavicsek\/dp\/0764584596\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1198709502&amp;sr=8-1\">D&amp;D for Dummies<\/a> says it all. (I thought it was an April Fols type prank.) I suspect some marketing researcher found lots of people felt intimidated? Even worse than being less intelligent. Its&#8230; a&#8230; game&#8230; Have fun! Who cares if its &#8220;right&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Between high school and college, I taught a good 30-40 people to play. Most were of less than average IQ. All it takes is patient players and DM for a couple hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe kids these days are not that bright. D&amp;D for Dummies says it all. (I thought it was an April Fols type prank.) I suspect some marketing researcher found lots of people felt intimidated? Even worse than being less intelligent. Its&#8230; a&#8230; game&#8230; Have fun! Who cares if its &#8220;right&#8221;? Between high school and college, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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}},"categories":[256,977,12],"tags":[3051],"class_list":["post-2605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","category-from-livejournal","category-humor","tag-fun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-G1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}