{"id":1498,"date":"2008-01-28T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2008-01-28T02:39:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T07:39:37","slug":"new-dice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"New Dice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people expressed an interest in seeing my new dice:<\/p>\n<p><table width='512'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/new_dice.jpg' class='insetimage' width='512' alt='new_dice.jpg' title='new_dice.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t actually what they look like.  If you were holding them in your hand you&#8217;d probably call them &#8220;maroon&#8221; colored, although the glossy finish made them look black in all the pictures.  They&#8217;re maroon with purple running through it, and the different colors seem to have different specular values, which makes the light shift around on them when you turn them over in your hand.  I love them, but they&#8217;re a devil to photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Purple has always been my favorite color.  (Actually, kind of a blue-purple. Like this: <span style=\"background-color:#9B00F4\">#9B00F4<\/span>.)   It&#8217;s kind of annoying that purple is seen as a &#8220;girly&#8221; or effeminate color.  Mace Windu aside, guys don&#8217;t usually mess around with purple.  Purple is awesome.  It used to be the color of kingly royalty, and now it&#8217;s something  ecstasy-addled teens wear to a rave.  That&#8217;s just not right.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people expressed an interest in seeing my new dice: This isn&#8217;t actually what they look like. If you were holding them in your hand you&#8217;d probably call them &#8220;maroon&#8221; colored, although the glossy finish made them look black in all the pictures. They&#8217;re maroon with purple running through it, and the different colors seem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}