{"id":985,"date":"2018-07-10T15:54:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T19:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/?p=985"},"modified":"2018-07-10T15:54:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T19:54:50","slug":"magic-and-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/2018\/07\/10\/magic-and-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic and Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I watched the debut of new illusions from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krendlmagic.com\/\">Krendl<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;The Magic of One&#8221; set. My wife and I are big fans of illusions, and in fact one of my forthcoming stories (set to appear in <a href=\"http:\/\/gargoylemagazine.com\/\">Gargoyle Magazine<\/a> in 2019) centers on a down-on-his-luck magician.<\/p>\n<p>The show kicked off with a video that features a quote from Will Smith&#8217;s character in <em>After Earth<\/em>: &#8220;Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My daughter, who is three, jumped up at the word &#8220;danger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Danger?&#8221; she asked.\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Where is it? Can I see?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was a very entertaining show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I watched the debut of new illusions from Krendl&#8216;s &#8220;The Magic of One&#8221; set. My wife and I are big fans of illusions, and in fact one of my forthcoming stories (set to appear in Gargoyle Magazine in 2019) centers on a down-on-his-luck magician. The show kicked off with a video that features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}