{"id":10556,"date":"2019-01-05T12:32:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T12:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthonyistar.ca\/questions-never-to-ask-a-magician\/"},"modified":"2023-07-09T02:44:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T02:44:27","slug":"questions-never-to-ask-a-magician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthonyistar.ca\/en\/questions-never-to-ask-a-magician\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions never to ask a magician"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto with_img\"><div class=\"l-section-img\" role=\"img\" data-img-width=\"1200\" data-img-height=\"157\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/anthonyistar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/magichands.png);background-position: top center;background-repeat: no-repeat;background-size: contain;\"><\/div><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"g-cols wpb_row us_custom_8f2234e7 via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">[vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;An anthology of the questions I&#8217;m asked at each of my performances&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:center&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;]<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-2 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_medium\"><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h6>Can you turn a \u20ac5 bill into a \u20ac500 bill? (hahaha)<\/h6>\n<p>No, if I knew how to do that, I wouldn&#8217;t be here today! And above all, if someone had given me \u20ac1 every time I heard that joke, I&#8217;d be living happily ever after on a small island in Bora Bora.<\/p>\n<h6>Can you make my wife disappear?<\/h6>\n<p>Making my clients&#8217; wives &#8220;disappear&#8221; wasn&#8217;t good for business. I had to stop. On the other hand, I always offer the woman cut in half trick (cleaning service extra).<\/p>\n<h6>Can you tell me a secret?<\/h6>\n<p>During my student days, I used my magic skills to make little camemberts disappear in my school canteen (and reappear in my stomach).<\/p>\n<h6>Is this your real job or a hobby?<\/h6>\n<p>One of the most frequently asked questions of magicians. It&#8217;s both slightly off-putting and completely understandable. Yes, it&#8217;s a real job: it takes years of work to master certain tricks, there&#8217;s all the administrative paperwork, responding to requests for quotes, rehearsals on the big day and, of course, the show itself. But for a 2 or 3-hour show, it can take several days of work beforehand.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_custom_heading text=\"An anthology of the questions I'm asked at each of my performances\" font_container=\"tag:h2|text_align:center\" use_theme_fonts=\"yes\"]Can you turn a \u20ac5 bill into a \u20ac500 bill? (hahaha) No, if I knew how to do that, I wouldn&#8217;t be here today! And above all, if someone had given me \u20ac1 every time I heard that joke, I&#8217;d be...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reveries-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonyistar.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonyistar.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonyistar.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyistar.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyistar.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyistar.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10560,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyistar.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10556\/revisions\/10560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyistar.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonyistar.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyistar.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyistar.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}