{"id":379,"date":"2007-03-03T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T10:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=379"},"modified":"2007-03-03T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T10:49:07","slug":"its-a-kind-of-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a kind of magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Arthur C. Clarke, &#8220;Profiles of The Future&#8221;, 1961<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This quote was in my mind as I read &#8220;Tricks Of The Mind&#8221; by the British magician Derren Brown. I&#8217;ve now finished the book and you can read my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/science.html#TOTM\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.&#8221; Arthur C. Clarke, &#8220;Profiles of The Future&#8221;, 1961 This quote was in my mind as I read &#8220;Tricks Of The Mind&#8221; by the British magician Derren Brown. I&#8217;ve now finished the book and you can read my review here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}