{"id":208,"date":"2013-05-03T11:04:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T11:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/05\/03\/penn-teller-do-an-excellent-deconstructed-cups-and-balls-routine-teach-you-to-write\/"},"modified":"2013-05-03T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T11:04:30","slug":"penn-teller-do-an-excellent-deconstructed-cups-and-balls-routine-teach-you-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/05\/penn-teller-do-an-excellent-deconstructed-cups-and-balls-routine-teach-you-to-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn &#038; Teller do an excellent deconstructed cups-and-balls routine, teach you to write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Penn &#038; Teller Explain Ball &#038; Cups on Jonathan Ross 2010.07.09 (Part 2) - YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8osRaFTtgHo&#038;feature=youtu.be\">Penn &#038; Teller Explain Ball &#038; Cups on Jonathan Ross 2010.07.09 (Part 2) &#8211; YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8osRaFTtgHo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis presentation of the cups and balls (a trick that is downright <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cups_and_balls\">&#8220;*ancient*<\/a>) isn&#8217;t just an incredibly graceful and concise primer on magic, but also on that triple-point of storytelling, narrative, and persuasion.  It highlights the shared, emergent linchpin that&#8217;s vital to entertaining someone, explaining something to them, and getting them to see things the way you want them seen.<br \/>\nHow wanna be a good writer?  And I don&#8217;t mean &#8220;a good novelist&#8221; or &#8220;a good copywriter&#8221; or &#8220;a good essayist&#8221;&#8211;I mean good at all three, good at the stuff that&#8217;s way down below all of these visible structures, down in the roots?  Then you could do much, much worse than watching this video over and over and over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn &#038; Teller Explain Ball &#038; Cups on Jonathan Ross 2010.07.09 (Part 2) &#8211; YouTube This presentation of the cups and balls (a trick that is downright &#8220;*ancient*) isn&#8217;t just an incredibly graceful and concise primer on magic, but also on that triple-point of storytelling, narrative, and persuasion. It highlights the shared, emergent linchpin that&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/05\/penn-teller-do-an-excellent-deconstructed-cups-and-balls-routine-teach-you-to-write\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Penn &#038; Teller do an excellent deconstructed cups-and-balls routine, teach you to write&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}