{"id":2154,"date":"2013-04-11T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T11:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2013-04-11T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T11:15:11","slug":"young-magician-of-the-year-sebastian-walton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/young-magician-of-the-year-sebastian-walton\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Magician of the Year: Sebastian Walton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/Sebastian-Walton1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/Sebastian-Walton1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sebastian Walton\" width=\"470\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 51st biennial competition to find The Young Magician of the Year took place at The Magic Circle Headquarters on Sunday with 6 finalists, aged from 14 to 18, battling it out for the highly coveted title that is widely considered a giant stepping stone in the career of any budding young magician. <\/p>\n<p>Hosted by comedian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noelbritten.co.uk\/\">Noel Britten<\/a>, the finalists delivered some great entertainment and strong magic. Among a very competitive field the very worthy winner was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebastianwaltonmagic.com\/\">Sebastian Walton<\/a> from Leeds. He impressed the whole audience and the judges with his charm and magical skills.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian is now well established as one to watch among the current crop of British young magicians. With this prestigious award he follows in the footsteps of past winners including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russstevens.co.uk\/\">Russ Stevens<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Cadell\">Richard Cadell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0640193\/\">Andrew O\u2019Connor<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominic_Wood\">Dominic Wood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our congratulations to Sebastian Walton, The Young Magician of The Year 2013.<\/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%2Fyoung-magician-of-the-year-sebastian-walton%2F\" addthis:title=\"Young+Magician+of+the+Year%3A+Sebastian+Walton\"><\/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>The 51st biennial competition to find The Young Magician of the Year took place at The Magic Circle Headquarters on Sunday with 6 finalists, aged from 14 to 18, battling it out for the highly coveted title that is widely considered a giant stepping stone in the career of any budding young magician. Hosted by [&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-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154"}],"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=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}