{"id":11157,"date":"2012-03-01T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11157"},"modified":"2012-03-01T03:00:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T08:00:22","slug":"sexier-than-lab-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11157","title":{"rendered":"Sexier than Lab Rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/Teller-Reveals-His-Secrets.html?c=y&amp;story=fullstory\">Teller Reveals His Secrets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of them, anyway.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I remember an experiment I did at the age of 11. My test subjects were Cub Scouts. My hypothesis (that nobody would see me sneak a fishbowl under a shawl) proved false and the Scouts pelted me with hard candy. If I could have avoided those welts by visiting an MRI lab, I surely would have.<\/p>\n<p>But magic\u2019s not easy to pick apart with machines, because it\u2019s not really about the mechanics of your senses. Magic\u2019s about understanding\u2014and then manipulating\u2014how viewers digest the sensory information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teller Reveals His Secrets Some of them, anyway. I remember an experiment I did at the age of 11. My test subjects were Cub Scouts. My hypothesis (that nobody would see me sneak a fishbowl under a shawl) proved false &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11157\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}