{"id":12613,"date":"2014-08-14T07:09:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T04:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=12613"},"modified":"2014-08-14T07:09:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T04:09:42","slug":"chaosiums-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/08\/14\/chaosiums-contempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaosium&#8217;s contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/136754-Even-Death-May-Die-Sandy-Petersen-Talks-Call-of-Cthulhu\">Interesting snippet<\/a> from Sandy Petersen, on the early history of <em>Call of Cthulhu<\/em> (tabletop role-playing game)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I remember when I was [first] doing <em>Call of Cthulhu<\/em> at Chaosium, the people there had contempt for Lovecraft &mdash; they thought he was a hack writer &mdash; but they wanted me to work on the game. They were smart; they said &#8216;we don&#8217;t respect this property, but Sandy Petersen does, so he&#8217;s the better person to design it!&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting snippet from Sandy Petersen, on the early history of Call of Cthulhu (tabletop role-playing game)&#8230; I remember when I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/08\/14\/chaosiums-contempt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}