{"id":5767,"date":"2012-06-20T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T15:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5767"},"modified":"2012-06-20T15:28:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T15:28:06","slug":"spellfire-was-a-strange-compelling-distillation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5767","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Spellfire was a strange, compelling distillation of all that made Dungeons &amp; Dragons such a recognizable cultural touchstone. Matches no longer hinged on the whims of a capricious Dungeon Master. The rules were more concrete, and the human element shifted to deck-building strategies\u2014more curation than creation. Spellfire was also something of a last tactile hurrah before the majority of games migrated online. Do kids today even know how to shuffle cards?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/gameological.com\/2012\/06\/not-in-the-cards\/\">Not In The Cards | Feature | The Gameological Society<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spellfire was a strange, compelling distillation of all that made Dungeons &amp; Dragons such a recognizable cultural touchstone. Matches no longer hinged on the whims of a capricious Dungeon Master. The rules were more concrete, and the human element shifted to deck-building strategies\u2014more curation than creation. Spellfire was also something of a last tactile hurrah <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5767\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}