{"id":1678,"date":"2017-11-15T10:55:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T15:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2017-11-14T16:11:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T21:11:32","slug":"i-love-that-it-goes-totally-unmentioned-that-he-stole-her-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/11\/i-love-that-it-goes-totally-unmentioned-that-he-stole-her-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"I love that it goes totally unmentioned that he stole her watch&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;on stage, in front of several thousand people.\u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">He slips it off the left wrist of the assistant standing to his right (our left) at the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jBjJ6lQO52g?t=1m40s\">1:40 min<\/a> mark.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 You can even see him pocket it.\u00a0 I love this, because it never plays into the trick (which is, itself, an incredibly rudimentary one; I did a version of this when I was 10 and got my first magic kit for Non-Denominational Gift Giving Holiday Season. I&#8217;m pretty shocked this made it on.)\u00a0\u00a0In many ways, it&#8217;s the greatest grift of all time: Dude does a\u00a0frenetic rendition of a less-than-mediocre effect (even his patter is a decade old, and sorta stock) in order to create a grand misdirection so he can steal a junk-jewelry watch.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s one for the ages.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jBjJ6lQO52g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8230;on stage, in front of several thousand people.\u00a0\u00a0He slips it off the left wrist of the assistant standing to his right (our left) at the 1:40 min mark.\u00a0 You can even see him pocket it.\u00a0 I love this, because it never plays into the trick (which is, itself, an incredibly rudimentary one; I did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/11\/i-love-that-it-goes-totally-unmentioned-that-he-stole-her-watch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I love that it goes totally unmentioned that he stole her watch&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[3],"tags":[52,63,121,209,210,211],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}