{"id":1168,"date":"2011-04-11T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2011-04-11T09:48:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T08:48:19","slug":"pickpocket-targets-the-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/pickpocket-targets-the-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickpocket Targets The Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/James-at-TMC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-853\" title=\"James at TMC\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/James-at-TMC.jpg\" alt=\"Pickpocket Magician\" width=\"210\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guests at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcrosscc.co.uk\/events\/details\/4\" target=\"_blank\">Governor\u2019s Ball <\/a>in <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.hants.gov.uk\/greathall.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Great Hall, Winchester Castle <\/a>on Friday were astonished by the skill and dexterity of pickpocket entertainer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/performers\/the-man-of-steal.html\" target=\"_blank\">James Freedman \u201cThe Man of Steal\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During his act James invites members of the audience onto the stage to retrieve wallets, watches and other possessions that he has stolen!<\/p>\n<p>Among the unsuspecting victims at the castle was guest of honour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankofengland.co.uk\/about\/people\/biographies\/king.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Mervyn King<\/a> who was delighted to have his valuables returned. This unusual encounter makes James the only person to have picked the pockets of The Mayor of London, The Chancellor of the Exchequer and now the Governor of The Bank of England.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s lucky he is not in the Tower!<\/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%2Fpickpocket-targets-the-governor%2F\" addthis:title=\"Pickpocket+Targets+The+Governor\"><\/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>Guests at the Governor\u2019s Ball in The Great Hall, Winchester Castle on Friday were astonished by the skill and dexterity of pickpocket entertainer James Freedman \u201cThe Man of Steal\u201d. During his act James invites members of the audience onto the stage to retrieve wallets, watches and other possessions that he has stolen! Among the unsuspecting [&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-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168"}],"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=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}