{"id":634,"date":"2008-06-30T09:51:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T15:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=634"},"modified":"2008-06-30T09:51:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T15:51:33","slug":"the-origin-of-gamerdad-reprint-issue-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/30\/the-origin-of-gamerdad-reprint-issue-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of GamerDad, Reprint Issue 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/supes.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"supes.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>I&#8217;m a nerd. Which is probably why I did a weekly feature around the time when GamerDad launched in &#8217;03.<\/p>\n<p><em>Under a Yellow Sun stands GamerDad!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><!--more--><\/em>The planet Atari was being torn asunder by natural and unnatural cataclysm. A scientist foresaw what was happening, but no one believed him. So he used what little time he had to construct a single space capsule and he and his wife tearfully placed their infant son within it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tiny ship launched as the planet below was utterly destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually the craft landed in Milwaukee Wisconsin, where a nice young couple found the baby and raised it as their own. It wasn&#8217;t until years later (and after the purchase of an Atari 2600) that they realized their orphan son was no mere mortal.<\/p>\n<p>Now under the guise of mild mannered gaming freelance reporter Andrew Bub, GamerDad is ever-vigilant and ready to use gaming skills to save the world. All he needs to do is take off those stupid glasses&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>For Truth, Justice, and Great Gaming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a nerd. Which is probably why I did a weekly feature around the time when GamerDad launched in &#8217;03. Under a Yellow Sun stands GamerDad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}