{"id":10419,"date":"2013-05-08T21:40:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T01:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10419"},"modified":"2013-05-08T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T01:40:02","slug":"abracadabra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10419","title":{"rendered":"Abracadabra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It rained, a lot, today. Apparently there was even flooding in New York City.<\/p>\n

Luckily I didn’t have to go out for lunch, since we had a speaker and sandwiches. The sandwiches, although free, were not remarkable. But the speaker was a local magician<\/a>, who talked about his career, magic in general, the psychology of misdirection. He performed several tricks and got the audience — myself included, briefly — involved, and I’d say it was probably one of our better “brown bag lunches.”<\/p>\n

The rain had stopped by the time I left for the day, and it actually got fairly sunny. So that was nice, too. And somehow I managed to get some work done today. Not completely<\/i> done — I’m not sure I’ll know what to do with myself when any of the books I’m working on is actually published and off my desk — but measurably<\/i> further along. Like, I got a lot done yesterday, too — some of which I actually had to repeat today, unfortunately — but I didn’t feel closer to completing a goal.<\/p>\n

Today I did. And there was a free lunch and a magic show to boot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It rained, a lot, today. Apparently there was even flooding in New York City. Luckily I didn’t have to go out for lunch, since we had a speaker and sandwiches. The sandwiches, although free, were not remarkable. But the speaker was a local magician, who talked about his career, magic in general, the psychology of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,52],"class_list":["post-10419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-personal","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10420,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions\/10420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}