{"id":3716,"date":"2022-01-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2022-02-14T06:30:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T17:30:54","slug":"episode-one-hundred-and-sixty-eight-the-big-red-christmas-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/2022\/01\/episode-one-hundred-and-sixty-eight-the-big-red-christmas-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode One Hundred And Sixty Eight &#8211; A Big Red Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2931\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3716-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-168-BigRedChristmas.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-168-BigRedChristmas.mp3\">https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-168-BigRedChristmas.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-168-BigRedChristmas.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/?powerpress_pinw=3716-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-168-BigRedChristmas.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"BRC-168-BigRedChristmas.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/168-BigRedChristmas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/168-BigRedChristmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3758\" width=\"461\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/168-BigRedChristmas.jpg 614w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/168-BigRedChristmas-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/168-BigRedChristmas-588x784.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Craig tries to combine A Christmas Carol with Solo Shifts on a Spaceship, and fails, but Ben recovers the idea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben pitches the idea of a Clip Show Holiday Episode of an RPG campaign, as a way to look back on the game so far &amp; a sneaky way to see which bits the players remember the most<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The regulars at a dive bar are called upon, at Christmas Eve, to make a Christmas Miracle occur. It&#8217;s not going to be easy, the situation is probably already out of control, and it all has to happen by Christmas Morning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Christmas looming, inexplicable anonymous helpful acts are being performed. Is it Elves? Kindly House Spirits? 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Anything.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2933\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3716-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-168-BigRedChristmas.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-168-BigRedChristmas.mp3\">https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-168-BigRedChristmas.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-168-BigRedChristmas.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/?powerpress_pinw=3716-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-168-BigRedChristmas.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"BRC-168-BigRedChristmas.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p>https:\/\/hoarde.net\/BRC_episodes\/BRC-168-BigRedChristmas.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Craig tries to combine A Christmas Carol with Solo Shifts on a Spaceship, and fails, but Ben recovers the idea Ben pitches the idea of a Clip Show Holiday Episode of an RPG campaign, as a way to look back on the game so far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[4],"tags":[71,73,74,72,19],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episode","tag-christmas","tag-clip-show-retrospective","tag-ghost","tag-holiday","tag-mysterious-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/168-BigRedChristmas.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/bigredcouch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}