{"id":1650,"date":"2004-10-24T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-24T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2018-07-31T07:31:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:31:08","slug":"1650","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/24\/1650\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A San Francisco magazine offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewavemag.com\/printarticle.php?articleid=24184.\" target=\"_new\">Dorkstorm: The Annihilation: The ten geekiest hobbies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although I score pretty highly, I cannot imagine mixing Collectible Card Games and Dungeons and Dragons in a single person, but then again I am one of the role players throwing four-sided dice in the bloody CCG vs RPG wars that used to take place at GenCon.  I mean, for crying out loud, Collectible Card Games take the worst aspect of role playing games&#8211;rules lawyers magic users who thought the point of the game was their demonstration of arcane computations and recombinations of magic which invloved spending a lot of a gaming session flipping through supplemental spell books and outwitting the game master&#8211;and made that worst aspect a game into itself.<\/p>\n<p>Oops.  I guess that little screed probably detracted from my utter sexability more than my creepy <a href=\"http:\/\/imao.us\/peace\/brian_j.htm\" target=\"_new\">Peace Gallery picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A San Francisco magazine offers Dorkstorm: The Annihilation: The ten geekiest hobbies. Although I score pretty highly, I cannot imagine mixing Collectible Card Games and Dungeons and Dragons in a single person, but then again I am one of the role players throwing four-sided dice in the bloody CCG vs RPG wars that used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20880,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/20880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}