{"id":601,"date":"2009-12-02T17:40:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T16:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/?p=601"},"modified":"2009-12-02T17:41:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T16:41:49","slug":"jim-cellini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/jim-cellini\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Cellini"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/cellini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-602\" title=\"cellini\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/cellini.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The world of magic has suffered a great loss with the death of the king of street magic, Jim Cellini.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Born Richard Sullivan, for nearly 40 years, Cellini made his living as a full-time street performer. His talent made him an internationally respected entertainer and he was widely acknowledged as the greatest street magician of modern times. Cellini&#8217;s approach changed the rules of performing street magic and his influence can be seen in the work of virtually every street magician working today. A respected teacher, his influence will continue through video recordings and his book, &#8216;Cellini: The Royal Touch&#8217; which reveal some of the best kept secrets of street magic from a master of his craft.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Jim was also a very kind man, with an enormously generous spirit and a desire to entertain people and make them happy. Anyone who met him is richer for that privilege.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Jim Cellini died in Switzerland on 23 November 2009.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/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%2Fjim-cellini%2F\" addthis:title=\"Jim+Cellini\"><\/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 world of magic has suffered a great loss with the death of the king of street magic, Jim Cellini. Born Richard Sullivan, for nearly 40 years, Cellini made his living as a full-time street performer. His talent made him an internationally respected entertainer and he was widely acknowledged as the greatest street magician of [&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-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"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=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}