{"id":862,"date":"2012-04-07T07:38:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T05:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"2012-04-21T16:20:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T14:20:32","slug":"sleights-of-mind-what-the-neuroscience-of-magic-reveals-about-our-everyday-deceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About our Everyday Deceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About our Everyday Deceptions<\/strong>. By Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez Conde and Sandra Blakeslee. Published in November 2011 by Picador.<\/p>\n<p>A tour by two leading neuroscientists and a fine science journalist of the many ways in which professional magicians exploit the known weaknesses in our mechanisms of allocating attention. Buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sleights-Mind-Neuroscience-Everyday-Deceptions\/dp\/0312611676\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1333776737&amp;sr=8-1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About our Everyday Deceptions. By Stephen &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[9,73],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recommended","tag-book","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}