{"id":57,"date":"2014-02-05T17:35:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myyearwitherdnase.com\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2014-02-05T17:35:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:35:41","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.myyearwitherdnase.com\/?page_id=57","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Booth 1912-2009<\/p>\n<p>Magician and author John Booth wrote Memoirs of a Magician&#8217;s Ghost a magic history column that ran in the Linking Ring from 1963 though 2000 <\/p>\n<p><strong>Dai Vernon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Known to magicians as The Professor Dai Vernon is considered to be the greatest close-up magician in the history of modern magic. He is often referred to as the &#8216;The man who fooled Houdini&#8217; after besting Houdini with an ambitious card routine. <\/p>\n<p>Dai Vernon spent thirty years as the magician in residence at the Magic Castle where he mentored people like Ricky Jay, Doug Henning and Michael Ammar.<\/p>\n<p>The first book on magic the Vernon owned was a copy of The Expert at the Card Table.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OeIBCLw4p8o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Martin Gardner 1914-2010<\/p>\n<p>Prolific author who wrote mainly on mathematics and was sometimes referred to as the &#8220;mathemagician&#8221; A number of his math &#038; magic books are available through Dover. Also the author of The Annotated Alice, a wonderfully annotated version of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Booth 1912-2009 Magician and author John Booth wrote Memoirs of a Magician&#8217;s Ghost a magic history column that ran in the Linking Ring from 1963 though 2000 Dai Vernon Known to magicians as The Professor Dai Vernon is considered to be the greatest close-up magician in the history of modern magic. He is often &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myyearwitherdnase.com\/?page_id=57\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">People<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4iAif-V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myyearwitherdnase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myyearwitherdnase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myyearwitherdnase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myyearwitherdnase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myyearwitherdnase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.myyearwitherdnase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"http:\/\/www.myyearwitherdnase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myyearwitherdnase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}