{"id":44167,"date":"2018-01-22T16:39:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T22:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=44167"},"modified":"2018-01-22T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T22:44:11","slug":"nate-staniforth-brings-real-magic-to-proud-larrys-at-a-must-see-show-january-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/nate-staniforth-brings-real-magic-to-proud-larrys-at-a-must-see-show-january-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate Staniforth Brings Real Magic to Proud Larry\u2019s at a Must-See Show January 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cJust caught a Nate Staniforth show,\u201d one reporter tweeted after opening night of the last tour, \u201cand now I have no idea what to believe about anything ever again.\u201d No rabbits. No top hats. No smoke machines. Nate\u2019s shows feel more like jumping out of an airplane than a night at a comedy club. He abandons the ubiquitous style-without-substance bravado so often associated with magic and appeals instead to the imagination and intellect of his audience. The journey is wild, visceral and immediate, and like all great art, encourages us to open our minds and hearts, and see the world in new ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWhen you\u2019re young, it\u2019s easy to be amazed,\u201d says <strong>Nate Staniforth<\/strong>. \u201cAs you get older, that experience of astonishment gets harder and harder to find. Good magic isn\u2019t about deception. It\u2019s about trying to see things the way you saw them before they became ordinary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For over a decade, Nate has toured the US college circuit as one of the busiest working magicians in the country. He\u2019s given a <strong>TEDx Talk<\/strong>, lectured at the world-famous<strong> Oxford Union<\/strong>, and in 2018 the <strong>Harry Potter<\/strong>-famed <strong>Bloomsbury Publishing<\/strong> will release Nate\u2019s memoir in bookstores worldwide. <em>Here is Real Magic<\/em> follows Nate\u2019s evolution from obsessed wunderkind to disillusioned\u00a0wanderer, and tells the story of his rediscovery of astonishment\u2014and the importance of wonder in everyday life\u2014during a trip to the <strong>India<\/strong>, where he met a 3,000-year-old clan of street magicians. Staniforth\u2019s book is available in Oxford at Square Books. Tickets to the show at <strong>Proud Larry\u2019s<\/strong> are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proudlarrys.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">available online<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJust caught a Nate Staniforth show,\u201d one reporter tweeted after opening night of the last tour, \u201cand now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":44171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8428],"tags":[5835,11513,11540,53,11538,602,11539],"class_list":["post-44167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-event","tag-author","tag-nate-staniforth","tag-oxford-union","tag-proud-larrys","tag-real-magic","tag-square-books","tag-tedx-talk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-22-nat-real-magic.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}