{"id":9818,"date":"2011-09-17T03:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9818"},"modified":"2011-09-17T03:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T08:00:23","slug":"contemplating-conjurors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9818","title":{"rendered":"Contemplating Conjurors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2011-09-curtain-mit-anthropologist-peers-mysterious.html\">Pulling back the curtain: MIT anthropologist peers into the mysterious world of professional magicians<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To find out how the craft works, Jones spent two years inside Paris\u2019 thriving world of magic. He acquired mentors, passed an examination to join France\u2019s largest magic association, and has emerged with a new book about the experience, <em>Trade of the Tricks<\/em>, published this month by the University of California Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulling back the curtain: MIT anthropologist peers into the mysterious world of professional magicians To find out how the craft works, Jones spent two years inside Paris\u2019 thriving world of magic. He acquired mentors, passed an examination to join France\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9818\">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":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-illusions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818","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=9818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}