{"id":1155,"date":"2011-04-04T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2011-04-01T17:07:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:07:36","slug":"close-up-magician-of-the-year-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/close-up-magician-of-the-year-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Close-up Magician of the Year 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/devano-cup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1156\" title=\"devano cup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/devano-cup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/devano-cup.jpg 200w, https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/devano-cup-167x300.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Last Monday, eight top Magic Circle magicians competed in the grand final for the Devano Trophy and the title \u2018The Magic Circle Close-up Magician of the Year 2011\u2019, in front of a packed\u00a0house at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magiccirclevenue.com\/\">The Magic Circle Headquarters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Devano trophy (pictured left) honours the late great Harry Devano, whose family were in attendance at this year\u2019s event. The\u00a0Devano rising cards is a brilliantly practical version of the trick portrayed in the eponymous trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Below you can watch a video of finalist James Freedman demonstrating the trick in our offices this morning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/harry-devano.mov\">James Freedman performs Devano&#8217;s Rising Cards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to John Van der Put, who took first place in the contest this year with an act that wowed the judges. If you wish to book John to appear at your own event give us a call.<\/p>\n\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/<!--\nvar addthis_append_data = 'false';\n\/\/-->\n<\/script>\n<div class=\"addthis_container\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=wp-4c32e42a5d9c79e6\" class=\"addthis_button\" addthis:url=\"https%3A%2F%2Fmagicians.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fclose-up-magician-of-the-year-2011%2F\" addthis:title=\"Close-up+Magician+of+the+Year+2011\"><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#username=wp-4c32e42a5d9c79e6\"><\/script><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Button END -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0Last Monday, eight top Magic Circle magicians competed in the grand final for the Devano Trophy and the title \u2018The Magic Circle Close-up Magician of the Year 2011\u2019, in front of a packed\u00a0house at The Magic Circle Headquarters. The Devano trophy (pictured left) honours the late great Harry Devano, whose family were in attendance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}