{"id":208,"date":"2007-07-22T18:54:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T00:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2007-07-22T19:14:46","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T01:14:46","slug":"the-hand-is-quicker-than-the-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"The hand is quicker than the eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/video.yahoo.com\/video\/play?vid=282338\">This is a video of John Scarne performing card manipulations<\/a>. Very impressive stuff. I wanted to embed the video, but it didn&#8217;t seem to want to be embedded.<\/p>\n<p>I remember reading a book titled &#8220;How to Cheat at Cards&#8221; when I was in high school. I remember it as a book, but the only references to that title I find online are to a chapter of the book &#8220;Scarne on Cards&#8221; (which I own), and to that chapter&#8217;s reprinting as a magazine article in Life magazine in 1949.<\/p>\n<p>I may be misremembering (it wouldn&#8217;t be the first time), but because Scarne made an effort to educate servicemen to the tricks employed by card sharps during World War II, and it was a military library I read it at, it&#8217;s possible that it was a pamphlet reprinting the chapter that was put out specifically for the military. I own a couple of LPs that were sold only through the military BX\/PX system, so it&#8217;s not an unreasonable assumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a video of John Scarne performing card manipulations. Very impressive stuff. I wanted to embed the video, but it didn&#8217;t seem to want to be embedded. I remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-fun-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}