{"id":183,"date":"2011-01-25T04:09:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T04:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=183"},"modified":"2022-04-09T11:56:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T16:56:45","slug":"ford-and-broadstead","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=183","title":{"rendered":"Ford and Broadstead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/fordbroadstead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-184\" title=\"fordbroadstead\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/fordbroadstead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/fordbroadstead.jpg 589w, http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/fordbroadstead-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These were characters my buddy Fredd and I played in a Victorian Era monster-stomping campaign back when I lived in Darkest Iowa.\u00a0 My character, Professor J. Hamish Broadstead, was a cantankerous etymologist and arch-skeptic who was obsessive about debunking the supernatural.\u00a0 Fredd described his character, Samuel Ford, as &#8220;Peter Venkmann with a steam-powered proton pack.&#8221;\u00a0 A fraudulent ghost-hunter and amateur inventor with a &#8220;ghost-killing&#8221; lighting gun.\u00a0 Add a skeptic, a charlatan and genuine ghosts and vampires, and you have a recipe for comedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These were characters my buddy Fredd and I played in a Victorian Era monster-stomping campaign back when I lived in Darkest Iowa.\u00a0 My character, Professor J. Hamish Broadstead, was a cantankerous etymologist and arch-skeptic who was obsessive about debunking the[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=183\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":151,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-183","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-kurtwilcken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/183\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}