{"id":30765,"date":"2011-09-24T22:01:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T22:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/amber-is-a-reference-to-a-series-of-fantasy-novels\/"},"modified":"2011-09-24T22:01:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T22:01:12","slug":"amber-is-a-reference-to-a-series-of-fantasy-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/amber-is-a-reference-to-a-series-of-fantasy-novels\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Amber is a reference to a series of fantasy novels by Roger Zelazny, beginning in 1970 with \u201cNine Princes in Amber,\u201d which served as the foundation of the game. Mush is an acronym for the form of the game, known winkingly as a \u201cmulti-user simulated hallucination.\u201d In the Amber world \u2014 shut down since 2009 but fondly remembered on tribute Web sites \u2014 participants created characters and developed scenarios, constructing the action as they went along in a kind of pick-up game of make-believe. With no graphics, Amber was a world made of words. For aspiring writers, as Mr. Butcher was back then, that was very enticing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/24\/books\/jim-butcher-one-of-the-authors-from-ambermush.html?src=rechp\">Jim Butcher, One of the Authors From Ambermush &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber is a reference to a series of fantasy novels by Roger Zelazny, beginning in 1970 with \u201cNine Princes in Amber,\u201d which served as the foundation of the game. Mush is an acronym for the form of the game, known winkingly as a \u201cmulti-user simulated hallucination.\u201d In the Amber world \u2014 shut down since 2009 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-30765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-80d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}