{"id":7358,"date":"2020-12-15T00:07:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/?p=7358"},"modified":"2020-12-15T00:20:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:20:52","slug":"magic-advent-calendar-december-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/magic-advent-calendar-december-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Advent Calendar &#8211; DECEMBER 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to entry number 15 of the <em>Magic Advent Calendar<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Most of you will have read or heard this quote: &#8220;He asked me if I like card tricks. I said no. He showed me five.&#8221; And variations thereof&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The quote is not quite correct. If you are interested to learn the exact wording you&#8217;ll find it on page 2 of the attached PDF, which is the complete short story <em>Mr. Know-All<\/em> by Somerset Maugham (1874 &#8211; 1965), the brilliant British writer, and which was first published in 1924 (so is now out of copyright). It was later reprinted in various collections of Maugham&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>December, the Holiday Season, is the perfect month to read short stories &#8211; to do so\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Maugham-Somerset-Mr-Know-All.pdf\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Maugham-Somerset-Mr-Know-All.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/images.jpeg 255w, https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/images-150x116.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wish you a good day!<\/p>\n<p>PS: There is a short movie, ca. 20 minutes long, about Maugham&#8217;s short story <em>Mr. Know-All<\/em>, and you can watch it on YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VfO-6RP7mko\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PPS: Many have said that Maugham&#8217;s <em>A Writer&#8217;s Notebook<\/em> is the best of its genre, and you can get it as a book or e-book for little money &#8211; I remember I immensely enjoyed it, and it is part of my non-magic library.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! Welcome to entry number 15 of the Magic Advent Calendar. Most of you will have read or heard this quote: &#8220;He asked me if I like card tricks. I said no. He showed me five.&#8221; And variations thereof&#8230; The quote is not quite correct. If you are interested to learn the exact wording [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2513,"featured_media":7312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[100,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magic-advent-calendar-2020","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MAC-15.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7623,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358\/revisions\/7623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}