{"id":6217,"date":"2004-04-26T10:18:13","date_gmt":"2004-04-26T17:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/04\/26\/thirty-years-ago.html"},"modified":"2004-04-26T10:18:13","modified_gmt":"2004-04-26T17:18:13","slug":"thirty_years_ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/26\/thirty_years_ag.html","title":{"rendered":"Thirty years ago &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"danddbooks.jpg\" title-\"Hey, I remember these things!\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/danddbooks.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" border=\"0\" class=\"right\" \/>While the BBC&#8217;s article on <a title=\"BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Whatever happened to Dungeons and Dragons?\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/3655627.stm\">the 30th Anniversary of D&#038;D<\/a> is the expected blend of wonderment (&#8220;Wonder why so many people used to play?  Wonder why people still do?&#8221;), it&#8217;s still a pretty remarkable milestone.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all the more remarkable that the vast majority of my friends (including my wife) were met in the course of D&#038;D games (of various sorts and brands).  And that it&#8217;s still such a major component of our social calendar.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8230; that I&#8217;ve been playing it for such a large percentage of my lifespan, too.  I wasn&#8217;t in there in 1974, but by &#8217;79, yeah.  <\/p>\n<p>Wow.  Thirty years.  Not bad for something so geeky.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.average-bear.com\/archive\/2004_04.html#4239\">Doyce<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the BBC&#8217;s article on the 30th Anniversary of D&#038;D is the expected blend of wonderment (&#8220;Wonder why so many people used to play? 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