{"id":4907,"date":"2019-01-11T19:42:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T19:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4907"},"modified":"2019-01-11T19:46:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T19:46:54","slug":"magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4907","title":{"rendered":"magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"am1od\" data-offset-key=\"f4ssl-0-0\">\n<div data-offset-key=\"f4ssl-0-0\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"53jnr\" data-offset-key=\"e3rif-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e3rif-0-0\">Magic is a great joy. There are two card tricks I know. They are both impressive, never show anyone how to do it. Keeping secret is how magic works. Watched many performers fret pre-show over their set list (sequence of songs). They imagine what an imaginary audience would approve of sequentially. There is a line of thought out there that says if people are approving what you do, then you are doing something wrong, like the other side of Groucho Marx&#8217;s line, &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t want to be part of a club that would accept someone like me as a member&#8221;. I&#8217;m the same, imaginary ideas about the imaginary audience but sometimes I get enough bouncers inside me to disallow admittance for the worries or doubts and improvise in the moment. When improvising like that, there is one rule I try to keep close, never say &#8220;what should I do next?&#8221; or &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what to play now&#8221;, better likelihood for magic if doubts remain secret.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magic is a great joy. There are two card tricks I know. They are both impressive, never show anyone how to do it. Keeping secret is how magic works. Watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4907\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-4907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-performing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}