{"id":212,"date":"2005-08-03T03:26:16","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T08:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2005-08-03T08:21:37","modified_gmt":"2005-08-03T13:21:37","slug":"the-magic-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/03\/the-magic-bubble\/","title":{"rendered":"The magic bubble."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian&#8217;s Alok Jha wrote <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/life\/feature\/story\/0,,1536988,00.html\">an excellent article<\/a> on magic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First there&#8217;s shock tinged with disbelief. A moment of wonder follows. Then, a desperate scramble to rack your brains and work out just how you&#8217;ve been had. There&#8217;s no denying the effects of a good magic trick. From the great escapes of Houdini and the surreal mental trickery of Derren Brown to the conjurors at children&#8217;s parties, the appeal is universal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, that sounds like magic to me, too.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of quotes from Magic Circle member <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/phoenix.herts.ac.uk\/pwru\/RWHomepage.html\">Richard Wiseman<\/a>, as well as Durham University psychologist <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/gustav.kuhn\/\">Gustav Kuhn<\/a>. Great article. Read it if you have a few moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian&#8217;s Alok Jha wrote an excellent article on magic. First there&#8217;s shock tinged with disbelief. A moment of wonder follows. Then, a desperate scramble to rack your brains and work out just how you&#8217;ve been had. There&#8217;s no denying the effects of a good magic trick. From the great escapes of Houdini and the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/03\/the-magic-bubble\/\">[&hellip;]<\/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\/212"}],"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=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}