{"id":1426,"date":"2006-03-26T21:30:35","date_gmt":"2006-03-26T21:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/03\/the_rise_of_the\/"},"modified":"2006-03-26T21:30:35","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T21:30:35","slug":"the_rise_of_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/the_rise_of_the\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0349118248&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nThe Rise of the Indian Rope Trick: How a Spectacular Hoax Became History to give the book its full title, explains how one of the most famous tricks on earth has actually never existed yet has continued to develop  a life of its own.<br \/>\nLet me direct you to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/02\/13\/books\/review\/13TELLERL.html?ei=5090&#038;en=879db53767dd25c6&#038;ex=1265950800&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;pagewanted=all&#038;position=\">great review<\/a> from a last year from Teller &#8211; the silent half of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennandteller.com\/\">Penn and Teller<\/a>. This does the book far more justice than I could ever.<br \/>\nThe book is written in an enormously chatty style and is excedingly accessible. Author, Peter Lamont, has plenty to say about lots of other things along the way too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick: How a Spectacular Hoax Became History to give the book its full title, explains how one of the most famous tricks on earth has actually never existed yet has continued to develop a life of its own. Let me direct you to a great review from a last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}