{"id":235,"date":"2008-12-12T11:12:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T10:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/?p=235"},"modified":"2008-12-12T12:21:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T11:21:10","slug":"international-magic-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/international-magic-award\/","title":{"rendered":"International Magic Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/uri-geller1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-237\" title=\"uri-geller1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/uri-geller1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The David Berglas International Magic Award from The Foundation for Promoting the Art of Magic has been awarded to Uri Geller. The award is presented annually to recipients who have given outstanding services to magic internationally. Following the presentation and in an open forum, Uri Geller candidly answered impromptu questions from the many magicians who had assembled for the 37th International Magic Convention held at the Shaw Theatre in London.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nUri Geller is one of the world&#8217;s most investigated and celebrated mystifiers and is famous around the globe for his mind-bending abilities. As David Berglas said when he presented the award, \u201cUri Geller is famous worldwide. I cannot think of anyone who has influenced a generation of magicians in the way he has done.\u201d Visit <span style=\" ; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\" lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uri-geller.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">www.uri-geller.com<\/span><\/a><\/span> for more information about the man who\u2019s life has been shrouded in debate, controversy and mystery.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The International Magic Convention is affectionately known among magicians worldwide as \u201cRon&#8217;s Day\u201d after the late great Ron MacMillan, a professional award winning stage magician who first conceived the idea of the convention. Over 37 years, Ron\u2019s Day has flown many, many amazing international magicians and illusionists to London for their debut performances in the UK. The event takes place every year on the last weekend in November and tickets to the final gala magic show are available to members of the public. For more details visit <span style=\"  mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalmagic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">www.internationalmagic.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/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%2Finternational-magic-award%2F\" addthis:title=\"International+Magic+Award\"><\/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>\u00a0The David Berglas International Magic Award from The Foundation for Promoting the Art of Magic has been awarded to Uri Geller. The award is presented annually to recipients who have given outstanding services to magic internationally. Following the presentation and in an open forum, Uri Geller candidly answered impromptu questions from the many magicians who [&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-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}