{"id":3145,"date":"2013-01-04T08:51:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T13:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2013-01-04T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T14:11:09","slug":"interesting-profile-of-a-pickpocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/?p=3145","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Profile of a Pickpocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/160842\/\">Instapundit<\/a>, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2013\/01\/07\/130107fa_fact_green#ixzz2GsrF2DYt\">article<\/a> about a performing pickpocket.  Really interesting stuff and not the first time I&#8217;ve read about this connection between neuroscience and magic.  Basically, scientists are breaking down magic routines to study how our attention can be manipulated, and thus theorize on how it actually works.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the best bit in the whole article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I been playing since I was knee-high to a shit-ball,&#8221; he said. &#8220;At first, I was a moll buzzer. I used to play in the ghetto. Then I started playing Skokie, then I started playing downtown in the Loop. They got Shot-Jims down there, and if you can play at that level and beat a chump, right there on the corner in front of they face- believe me, you can play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a quote from another pickpocket mentioned in the article.  You&#8217;ll have to go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2013\/01\/07\/130107fa_fact_green#ixzz2GsrF2DYt\">read the article<\/a> for a translation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Instapundit, an article about a performing pickpocket. Really interesting stuff and not the first time I&#8217;ve read about this connection between neuroscience and magic. Basically, scientists are breaking down magic routines to study how our attention can be manipulated, and thus theorize on how it actually works. Here&#8217;s the best bit in the whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3146,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions\/3146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}