{"id":1847,"date":"2009-08-20T14:17:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T22:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2009\/08\/20\/andrus\/"},"modified":"2009-08-20T14:18:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T22:18:55","slug":"andrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2009\/08\/20\/andrus\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kara&#8217;s Dad, Robert, along with her brother-in-law Ty, made a biographical documentary last year about the late illusionist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Andrus\" title=\"Unlike the Magicians' Alliance, he did not really demand to be taken seriously.\">Jerry Andrus<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a really, really good movie, unimpeded by the title <a href=\"http:\/\/skepticalmedia.com\/\" title=\"Subtitles:  If Your Movie Has One, You Are Already Doing it Wrong\">Andrus:  The Man, the Mind &amp; the Magic<\/a>.  In particular, I found the breakdown of some of his optical illusions fascinating, and the close-up magic he demonstrates is unbelievable; one of the most interesting things about Andrus was that he used both to provoke skepticism and critical thinking from his audience, rather than to cultivate an aura of mystique.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in Oregon, you can watch an hour-long cut of the movie at 10 pm tonight on OPB&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opb.org\/oregonlens\/\" title=\"Rebroadcast on Sunday at 4 am.\">Oregon Lens<\/a>.  I recommend that you do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kara&#8217;s Dad, Robert, along with her brother-in-law Ty, made a biographical documentary last year about the late illusionist Jerry Andrus. It&#8217;s a really, really good movie, unimpeded by the title Andrus: The Man, the Mind &amp; the Magic. In particular, I found the breakdown of some of his optical illusions fascinating, and the close-up magic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kara","category-movies","category-plugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}