While doing my best to figure out how to wrap up any number of mostly-done posts for Escamoteurettes, I get a notice that Penn Jillette has commented on the State of the World. It’s not that I planned to pen two Penn posts back to back, but that’s the way the world works sometimes. I just stopped asking “why.”<\/p>\n
I don’t know Penn. I spoke with him for maybe five seconds at MAGIC Live! in Vegas last year (in between shoving David Blaine out of the way so I could talk to Michael Close, and lusting over some exceptional posters for sale.) We do share a couple of things in common, one of which is an enthusiasm for free speech rights.<\/p>\n
So when he calls “an absolute hellhole” every country outside the good old U S of A<\/a>, I can only say, “God bless the right to free speech and God bless the USA.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While doing my best to figure out how to wrap up any number of mostly-done posts for Escamoteurettes, I get a notice that Penn Jillette has commented on the State of the World. It’s not that I planned to pen two Penn posts back to back, but that’s the way the world works sometimes. I […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}