{"id":781,"date":"2008-03-18T09:04:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T16:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2008-06-21T17:22:48","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T00:22:48","slug":"dear-john-kovalic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Dear John Kovalic&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey <a href=\"http:\/\/muskrat-john.livejournal.com\/\">John<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for what turned out to be my very favorite online tribute to Gary Gygax. Your artwork played a key role in a (slightly tardy) memorial gaming brunch we held with a group of friends this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In the alcove of our chimney where there once sat an indoor barbecue grill (who <em>thinks<\/em> of these things? Mmmm, carbon  monoxide&#8230;.) we erected a small shrine to Mr. Gygax, including a selection of stuff he might need in the next life:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/gygax-shrine.jpg\" alt=\"Shrine to Gary Gygax\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, your drawing was pretty much the centerpiece. As the guests arrived, some brought their own D&amp;D paraphernalia to add to the monument. We ate frozen pizza, Cheetos and Pop Tarts, quaffed coffee and Mountain Dew, played\u2014coincidentally\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/munchkin\/game\/\">Munchkin<\/a> (most of us are too busy to do any serious D any more) and had a marvelous time. It was a beautiful sunny day outside, and we were all indoors playing fantasy games. Very authentic. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the gathering, we poured out the Mountain Dew in tribute to the fallen. The curb seemed inappropriate, as it was outside, and as avid a fan as I am I was not prepared to dump it out on the family room carpet in the basement, which seemed the most fitting. So we elected for the kitchen sink.<\/p>\n<p>A great time was had by all, and I think it was a fitting memorial.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again for your contributions to the genre and the culture.<\/p>\n<p>Uncle Andrew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey John, I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for what turned out to be my very favorite online tribute to Gary Gygax. Your artwork played a key role in a (slightly tardy) memorial gaming brunch we held with a group of friends this weekend. In the alcove of our chimney where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}