{"id":134,"date":"2019-01-05T20:06:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T20:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/wordpress\/?p=134"},"modified":"2019-04-25T20:07:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T19:07:54","slug":"on-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/on-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"On Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the childhood, I was\nfascinated by the ideas of telekinesis, prophecies and other super-human\nabilities. I had tried to move a match on the water in a teacup with the power\nof my thought as well as I was reading the supposed predictions of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nostradamus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nostradamus<\/a>&nbsp;and\nwas trying to decipher them and predict the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I read texts of Harry Potter and\nother fictional and sci-fi books, watched similar movies like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doctor_Strange_(2016_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Doctor\nStrange<\/a>&nbsp;and TV shows, and was dreaming and thinking that the\nmagic might be real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0-1-1-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0-1-1-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0-1-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0-1-1-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0-1-1-380x254.jpg 380w, https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0-1-1-800x535.jpg 800w, https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0-1-1-1160x776.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0-1-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Only recently, in the last 3-5\nyears, I started to appreciate and understand that there is another type\nof&nbsp;<em>real&nbsp;<\/em>magic in this world. For example, a million dollars\nor pounds in wealth could construct a hotel. Good politics could prevent a war\nor stop hunger. Culture and institutions can allow society to thrive. An\nimplemented idea could change everything. The real world does contain magic, it\nis just a different sort of magic. It requires to have a well-educated eye to\nsee it, and even more educated brain and hands to start using this magic.\nHowever, once you start learning how to use it, the possibilities of what you\ncan achieve are infinite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the childhood, I was fascinated by the ideas of telekinesis, prophecies and other super-human abilities. I had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-powers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}