{"id":528,"date":"2003-02-08T21:50:24","date_gmt":"2003-02-08T21:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-528.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"cards-as-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2003\/02\/08\/cards-as-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Cards as Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2003\/02\/cards_as_weapons.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Ricky Jay - Cards as Weapons\" style=\"margin-right:10px;\" \/>Oh, how I would dearly love to own a copy of this book.  I first heard about it some time in the mid 90s, when I saw a TV documentary about the amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fametracker.com\/hey_its_that_guy\/jay_ricky.shtml\">Ricky Jay<\/a>.  It was the bit where he cut a pencil in half by throwing an ordinary playing card at it that got me really hooked.  I practiced a bit, and got to the point where I could spin a card all the way across the room, but I didn&#8217;t take it any further than that.<\/p>\n<p><i>Cards as Weapons<\/i> was first published in 1977, and has been out of print since then.  Today is the first time I&#8217;ve seen the book for sale on Ebay.  (Admittedly, I&#8217;ve only been looking since last summer.)  But at a cool $750, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be placing any bids.  There&#8217;s a copy available through Amazon.com for $295, but even this is too expensive.  I&#8217;m more interested in the <em>text<\/em> than in the book itself, so I&#8217;m hoping that maybe some day an enterprising small publisher might pick up the rights and do a new edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, how I would dearly love to own a copy of this book.  I first heard about it some time in the mid 90s, when I saw a TV documentary about the amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fametracker.com\/hey_its_that_guy\/jay_ricky.shtml\">Ricky Jay<\/a>.  It was the bit where he cut a pencil in half by throwing an ordinary playing card at it that got me really hooked.  I practiced a bit, and got to the point where I could spin a card all the way across the room, but I didn&#8217;t take it any further than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}