{"id":6,"date":"2017-12-20T21:44:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secknus.de\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2017-12-20T21:44:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:44:10","slug":"on-magic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/secknus.de\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"On Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>Old Lodge Skins : <\/i>Am I still in this world?<\/p>\n<p><i>Jack Crabb : <\/i>Yes, Grandfather.<\/p>\n<p><i>Old Lodge Skins : <\/i>I was afraid of that. Well, sometimes the magic works. Sometimes, it doesn&#8217;t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s little reason to believe I am a magician. Nor do I count on supernatural influences. But this wise old Indian managed to see some amount of magic as a natural element of his people\u2018s, the \u201eHuman Beings\u2018\u201c, lives. And apparently he did so without expectation of a specific, or successful, outcome. (O.k., success in this example would be a doubtful attribution considering that the old chief had intended to pass away that night and failed). That kind of magic may or may not work. Either way, it is magic.<\/p>\n<p>This is an eclectic, amateur, souvenir epilogue of several travels along or near U.S. route 40, dating back to the early-mid 1990ies. Something on how I got there may occasionally be included. There will be no rapid progress, since I have to work for a living. But going slow seems appropriate for this topic. If you\u2019d prefer to arrive quickly, then the multi-lane freeway probably suits your needs better than a decades-old (and in places crumpling) rural highway, and I\u2019ll be pleased to drop you off at one of the upcoming interchanges. But I suggest you stay on and we\u2019ll give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>Magic? Let\u2019s find out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Lodge Skins : Am I still in this world? Jack Crabb : Yes, Grandfather. Old Lodge Skins : I was afraid of that. Well, sometimes the magic works. Sometimes, it doesn&#8217;t. There\u2019s little reason to believe I am a magician. Nor do I count on supernatural influences. But this wise old Indian managed to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secknus.de\/?page_id=6\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eOn Magic\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secknus.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secknus.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secknus.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secknus.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secknus.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secknus.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/secknus.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secknus.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secknus.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}