{"id":4310,"date":"2015-01-10T02:25:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T02:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2015-01-10T02:25:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T02:25:20","slug":"trick-or-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/stage-combat-2\/trick-or-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trick or Treat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not Halloween, but I saw a video this week that made me ask myself about performances in which a performer is ostensibly put in mortal danger.<\/p>\n<p>When one performer launches a deadly projectile at another performer, is it more impressive as a skill or as an illusion? How close do they have to come to killing their partner for it to be entertaining?<\/p>\n<p>First, <strong>&#8220;Some Scary Sh*t: Idiotic Knife Thrower Almost Kills His Partner During A Live Performance!\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Some Scary Sh*t: Idiotic Knife Thrower Almost Kills His Partner During A Live Performance!\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z4zDH-t93mg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, here\u2019s <strong>Penn and Teller&#8217;s Magic Bullet <\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Penn and Teller Magic bullet catch complete\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DjDcARq8ty8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So which is the better show to you? Magic or skill?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not Halloween, but I saw a video this week that made me ask myself about performances in which a performer is ostensibly put in mortal danger. When one performer launches a deadly projectile at another performer, is it more impressive as a skill or as an illusion? How close do they have to come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stage-combat-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/blog-trick-or-treat.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}