{"id":1209,"date":"2010-09-02T09:58:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T15:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2010-10-03T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T17:04:18","slug":"the-exterminators-want-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2010\/09\/the-exterminators-want-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Exterminator&#8217;s Want-Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/termite-dice.jpg\" alt=\"The Exterminator&#039;s Want Ad\" title=\"The Exterminator&#039;s Want Ad\" width=\"164\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/termite-dice.jpg 164w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/termite-dice-140x300.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\" \/><em>The Exterminator&#8217;s Want-Ad<\/em> is a wickedly clever short story by Bruce Sterling (one of my favorite writers) about a dystopian future where political prisoners are sentenced to role playing games. Here&#8217;s a taste, for inspiration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen we weren&#8217;t planting beans in the former back yard, or digging mold out of the attic insulation, we had to do rehab therapy. This was our prisoner consciousness-building encounter scheme. The regime made us play social games. We weren&#8217;t allowed computer games in prison: just dice, graph paper, and some charcoal sticks that we made ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>So, we played this elaborate paper game called &#8220;Dungeons and Decency.&#8221; Three times a week. The lady warden was our Dungeon Master.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/shareable.net\/blog\/the-exterminators-want-ad\">Link<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Exterminator&#8217;s Want-Ad is a wickedly clever short story by Bruce Sterling (one of my favorite writers) about a dystopian future where political prisoners are sentenced to role playing games. Here&#8217;s a taste, for inspiration: When we weren&#8217;t planting beans in the former back yard, or digging mold out of the attic insulation, we had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,117,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dungeons-and-dragons","category-literature","category-sterling-bruce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}