{"id":814,"date":"2016-11-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=814"},"modified":"2016-11-10T17:13:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T23:13:38","slug":"its-not-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2016\/11\/25\/its-not-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an illusion!<\/p>\n<p>At least, that&#8217;s what Doug Henning would say.<br \/>\nHey, look, it&#8217;s been a rough month.\u00a0 What with the elections, the holiday and NaNoWriMo, you&#8217;ve had a lot going on.\u00a0 I mean, a lot.<br \/>\nNo matter who you wanted to win the Presidential Elections this year, the campaign has been brutal.\u00a0 And, frankly, I think the next four years are going to be chaotic, challenging and a little frightening for a lot of us.\u00a0 Then, there&#8217;s the stress of the Thanksgiving holiday.\u00a0 I mean, c&#8217;mon, dinner with the family is never easy, is it?\u00a0 And, finally, if you&#8217;re participating in National Novel Writing Month, you&#8217;ve been churning out words as fast as you can, racing to that deadline.<br \/>\nAnd, by the way, if you are doing NaNoWriMo then you should be getting near the end of your novel.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t mean to panic you, but there&#8217;s really only a couple of days left.\u00a0 Less than a week, actually.<\/p>\n<p>So, no matter what&#8217;s been going on, you deserve a little break.\u00a0 A chance to just veg out a little and sit like a stupid lump and stare at something cool.\u00a0 Good news!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got just the thing!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/23\/10-optical-illusions-that-will-blow-your-mind_n_3307500.html\">Ten optical illusions that will blow your mind over at the Huffington Post<\/a>.\u00a0 Seriously, these are pretty cool and a great way to let your brain slip into neutral for a little bit so you can recharge before getting back to that big project of yours, NaNoWriMo manuscript or whatever you might be working on.<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead and take a break.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a holiday and you deserve it!<\/p>\n<p>This post originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jkhoffman.com\/2016\/11\/its-not-magic\/\">Use Your Words<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an illusion! At least, that&#8217;s what Doug Henning would say. Hey, look, it&#8217;s been a rough month.\u00a0 What with the elections, the holiday and NaNoWriMo, you&#8217;ve had a lot going on.\u00a0 I mean, a lot. No matter who you wanted to win the Presidential Elections this year, the campaign has been brutal.\u00a0 And, frankly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,27,1,41],"tags":[997,1000,925,937,928,1002,1001,102,999,998],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fun","category-general","category-nanowrimo","tag-culture","tag-doug-henning","tag-human-interest","tag-literary-societies","tag-national-novel-writing-month","tag-optical-illusions","tag-presidential-elections","tag-thanksgiving","tag-the-huffington-post","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}