{"id":2375,"date":"2013-11-19T10:53:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T09:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2013-11-22T18:23:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T17:23:36","slug":"lu-chen-wins-the-international-magic-award-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/lu-chen-wins-the-international-magic-award-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Lu Chen wins the International Magic Award 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/LU-CHEN-RESIZE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/LU-CHEN-RESIZE.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo MagicWeek\" width=\"470\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/LU-CHEN-RESIZE.jpg 470w, https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/LU-CHEN-RESIZE-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Foundation for Promoting the Art of Magic has awarded it&#8217;s International Magic Award to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lu-chen.com\/about.php?lg=en\">Lu Chen<\/a> the undisputed superstar of modern magic who is seen here receiving the award from David Berglas. (Photo:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicweek.co.uk\/\">MagicWeek <\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Lu Chen is a multi award winning magician based in his native Taiwan. His television shows have achieved viewing figures of 1 billion making him the most watched magician in history.<\/p>\n<p>This prestigious award was conceived by David Berglas and has been presented annually since 2007 when it was awarded to The MacMillan Family for their work in producing the International Magic Convention successfully for over forty years. Other recipients since then have included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidcopperfield.com\/html\/\">David Copperfield<\/a> , <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Juan_Tamariz\">Juan Tamariz<\/a> , <a href=\"http:\/\/derrenbrown.co.uk\/\">Derren Brown <\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/site.uri-geller.com\/\">Uri Geller<\/a>.<\/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%2Flu-chen-wins-the-international-magic-award-2013%2F\" addthis:title=\"Lu+Chen+wins+the+International+Magic+Award+2013\"><\/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 Foundation for Promoting the Art of Magic has awarded it&#8217;s International Magic Award to Lu Chen the undisputed superstar of modern magic who is seen here receiving the award from David Berglas. (Photo: MagicWeek ) Lu Chen is a multi award winning magician based in his native Taiwan. His television shows have achieved viewing [&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-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375"}],"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=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}