{"id":11044,"date":"2020-10-25T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11044"},"modified":"2020-11-12T21:26:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T04:26:53","slug":"the-amazing-randi-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/25\/the-amazing-randi-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Randi Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/10\/james-randi-dies-the-amazing-randi-performer-and-paranormal-skeptic-was-92-obituary-1234601517\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">James Randi Dies: \u2018The Amazing Randi\u2019 Performer And Paranormal Skeptic Was 92<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/bruceharingdeadline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bruce Haring<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Randi vs. The Supernatural\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kor_L12bBB0?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/james-randi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Randi<\/a>, a magician whose many TV appearances led him to a second career as a respected\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paranormal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paranormal<\/a>\u00a0investigator, has died at 92.\u00a0The James Randi Foundation confirmed his death in a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jref\/status\/1319026981502128134\" target=\"_blank\">tweet on Tuesday,<\/a>\u00a0saying he died of \u201cage-related causes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born Randall James Zwinge in 1928, he entered show business as a teenager, touring with a carnival and working nightclubs in his native Toronto, Canada. Initially billed as The Great Randall: Telepath, he parlayed that name into a mind-reading act and a knack for predicting the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike many magicians and performers, Randi was not averse to letting fans know that he was a trickster, relying on subterfuge and sleight of hand to pull off his tricks. As his career grew, adding escape artist to his bag of stunts, he grew increasingly worried about the people who refused to embrace the fact that it was all an act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/10\/james-randi-dies-the-amazing-randi-performer-and-paranormal-skeptic-was-92-obituary-1234601517\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline James Randi Dies: \u2018The Amazing Randi\u2019 Performer And Paranormal Skeptic Was 92 By\u00a0Bruce Haring James Randi, a magician whose many TV appearances led him to a second career as a respected\u00a0paranormal\u00a0investigator, has died at 92.\u00a0The James Randi Foundation confirmed his death in a\u00a0tweet on Tuesday,\u00a0saying he died of \u201cage-related causes.\u201d Born Randall James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}