{"id":2499,"date":"2014-02-07T18:05:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2014-02-07T18:05:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T17:05:14","slug":"james-freedman-is-the-magic-circle-close-up-magician-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/james-freedman-is-the-magic-circle-close-up-magician-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"James Freedman is The Magic Circle Close-Up Magician of the Year."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/Magician-of-the-Year-2014-James-Freedman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Magician of the Year 2014 James Freedman\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2500 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/Magician-of-the-Year-2014-James-Freedman-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/Magician-of-the-Year-2014-James-Freedman-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/Magician-of-the-Year-2014-James-Freedman.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday night, The Magic Circle staged the finals of its annual competition to find the Close-Up Magician of the Year. Eight of the club&#8217;s top magicians performed sleight of hand illusions for a specially invited audience at The Magic Circle Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the Magic Circle, Jack Delvin said, &#8220;To win this competition requires outstanding technical ability, sleight of hand, performance skills and a strong personality. James rose to the top across all these criteria.&#8221; This is the second time that James has won this award.<\/p>\n<p>A delighted James said, &#8220;I was amazed by some of my fellow performers tonight and am thrilled to have won this very coveted trophy and the prestigious title &#8216;The Magic Circle Close-Up Magician of the Year 2014&#8217;.<\/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%2Fjames-freedman-is-the-magic-circle-close-up-magician-of-the-year%2F\" addthis:title=\"James+Freedman+is+The+Magic+Circle+Close-Up+Magician+of+the+Year.\"><\/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>On Monday night, The Magic Circle staged the finals of its annual competition to find the Close-Up Magician of the Year. Eight of the club&#8217;s top magicians performed sleight of hand illusions for a specially invited audience at The Magic Circle Headquarters. The President of the Magic Circle, Jack Delvin said, &#8220;To win this competition [&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-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499"}],"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=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}