{"id":1706,"date":"2008-09-13T01:53:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T01:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexsuze.com\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2008-09-12T22:41:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T22:41:03","slug":"suspension-and-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=1706","title":{"rendered":"Suspension And Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px; border: 0px;\" src=\"\/images\/davidblaine.jpg\" alt=\"David Blaine\" width=\"300\" height=\"399\" \/>Later this month the world&#8217;s most boring performance artist David Blaine will be suspended upside down above central park for two or three days.<\/p>\n<p>When I first read this I thought the legions of people around the world who think he&#8217;s a tosser had finally caught up with him and arranged a lynching, but sadly no. It&#8217;s yet another stunt so that he can make even more money. In one way I have to salute him. An average street magician and self-styled misanthrope with about the same charisma as an empty paper cup, he keeps getting richer from doing very boring things.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it the only reason most people watch what he gets up to is on the off-chance something goes horribly wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Shit I&#8217;m bitter this week. It&#8217;s been a long one.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/David+Blaine\" target=\"_blank\">David Blaine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later this month the world&#8217;s most boring performance artist David Blaine will be suspended upside down above central park for two or three days. When I first read this I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=1706\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}