{"id":5112,"date":"2010-08-30T12:04:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T16:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2018-01-23T18:15:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T23:15:30","slug":"charles-s-roberts-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/charles-s-roberts-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles S. Roberts, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedonovan.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/meanwhile_in_ot_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Armorer<\/a> passed on some sad news today:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Charles S. Roberts, one of my enduring heroes, has passed.  The company he founded, Avalon Hill,  and the products it produced, awoke a part of me that still earns me gainful employment to this day.  I may have to go downstairs and break out <em>Afrika Corps<\/em>, or <em>Gettysburg<\/em>, and play a game in his honor.  All you role players out there, heirs to Dungeons and Dragons?  You owe Mr. Roberts thanks, too &mdash; like me, Gary Gygax got his start with Avalon Hill wargames.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Armorer passed on some sad news today: Charles S. Roberts, one of my enduring heroes, has passed. The company he founded, Avalon Hill, and the products it produced, awoke a part of me that still earns me gainful employment to this day. I may have to go downstairs and break out Afrika Corps, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[623],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-history","tag-wargames"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1ks","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5527,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/5527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}