{"id":842,"date":"2010-08-02T09:28:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T08:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/?p=842"},"modified":"2010-08-09T13:44:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T12:44:28","slug":"international-close-up-magicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/international-close-up-magicians\/","title":{"rendered":"International Close-up Magicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/mermaid-theatre-seating.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-847\" title=\"mermaid-theatre-seating\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/mermaid-theatre-seating-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/mermaid-theatre-seating-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/mermaid-theatre-seating.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalmagic.com\/pages\/convention.html\" target=\"_blank\">The International Magic Convention<\/a> is known all over the world as Ron\u2019s Day, named after the late great Ron McMillan who conceived the idea in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>In 1984 International Magic added a <a title=\"Close up Magician\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/close-up-magician.html\" target=\"_blank\">close up magic<\/a> competition to the event which is held in extremely high regard by magicians all over the world. Past winners include; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/lennart_green.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lennart Green<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlosvaquera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Vaquera<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazzoshow.com\/Site\/Welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gazzo<\/a>, Mark Sicher, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garykurtz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Kurtz<\/a>, Carl Cloutier, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobsheets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Vincent, Bob Sheets<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chadlong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chad Long<\/a>, Chris Power, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holyshoot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shoot Ogawa<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/performers\/peter-wardell.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Wardell<\/a> and of course Kevin Reay after whom the competition trophy was named in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The magical weekend also includes a public gala show which this year will be held at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-mermaid.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mermaid Theatre <\/a>on\u00a026, 27 and 28 November\u00a02010.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about competing at this year\u2019s event\u00a0or to book tickets to this world class magic show visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalmagic.com\/acatalog\/Convention_registration.html\" target=\"_blank\">International Magic Convention registration page<\/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%2Finternational-close-up-magicians%2F\" addthis:title=\"International+Close-up+Magicians\"><\/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 International Magic Convention is known all over the world as Ron\u2019s Day, named after the late great Ron McMillan who conceived the idea in 1972. In 1984 International Magic added a close up magic competition to the event which is held in extremely high regard by magicians all over the world. Past winners include; [&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-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842"}],"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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}