{"id":46740,"date":"2019-05-10T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=46740"},"modified":"2019-04-28T15:43:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T19:43:46","slug":"21-a-surprised-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=46740","title":{"rendered":"#21 A Surprised Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><image src=\"images\/cb21.jpg\" max-width=\"100%\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;display:block\"\/><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bubblehead\" src=\"images\/cb_ivy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"bubble speech\">Entering a dungeon should be like opening Christmas presents: The contents should always be a surprise. That\u2019s half the fun! (For the GM, the other half of the fun is doing your level best to kill the lot of them once they get inside.)<\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><br \/>\n<strong>Shawn Says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think I am officially going to mark this comic as the turning point of us finding our footing and hitting our stride.  I think this one pretty much works perfectly.  I love panel 2, and Ivy in the last panel just makes me happy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shamus Says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve just spent 20 comics bemoaning my inability to do three-panel jokes, and here we pull one off. And panel two is silent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46740","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=46740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46743,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46740\/revisions\/46743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}