{"id":3648,"date":"2002-10-14T09:28:58","date_gmt":"2002-10-14T14:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2002-10-14T09:28:58","modified_gmt":"2002-10-14T14:28:58","slug":"be_careful_what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/14\/be_careful_what.html","title":{"rendered":"Be careful what you joke about"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aw, swell. It seems my comment the other day about not missing the days when D&D players were thought to be closet Satanists was premature<\/a>. Only now we’re not Satanists, we’re closet serial killers<\/a>, a la <\/i>the “Tarot Card Sniper.”<\/p>\n

Just for the record, folks — when I talk a lot about being a “cat person,” it really just means that I like our cats, not that I’m confused between my own self-identity and the felinoid characters I’ve played. Et cetera<\/i>.<\/p>\n

(via ToaFD<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aw, swell. It seems my comment the other day about not missing the days when D&D players were thought to be closet Satanists was premature. Only now we’re not Satanists,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5060,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/09\/dd_resurrected.html","url_meta":{"origin":3648,"position":0},"title":"D&D Resurrected","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 9-Nov-03 11:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Boulder Daily Camera reports on the resurgence of D&D among twenty-something professionals. 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