{"id":126,"date":"2004-05-05T13:36:01","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T17:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=126"},"modified":"2004-05-05T13:36:01","modified_gmt":"2004-05-05T17:36:01","slug":"saving-throw-vs-ridiculefailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Saving throw vs. ridicule…failed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite my complete ignorance of their deadlines, Gamegrene was kind enough to post my second article<\/a>. I’ve learned some things since then, and probably would have written more had I not wanted to meet that deadline, but there it is nonetheless.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I’m a big nerd, but I’m not alone<\/a>. All you slashdot hipster-geeks out there, ph34r the OG(M).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite my complete ignorance of their deadlines, Gamegrene was kind enough to post my second article. I’ve learned some things since then, and probably would have written more had I not wanted to meet that deadline, but there it is nonetheless. Yeah, I’m a big nerd, but I’m not alone. All you slashdot hipster-geeks out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-22","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":965,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=965","url_meta":{"origin":126,"position":0},"title":"Pick a point and head for it. 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