{"id":193,"date":"2014-08-06T08:45:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=193"},"modified":"2014-08-06T08:45:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T12:45:15","slug":"the-only-magic-i-could-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2014\/08\/06\/the-only-magic-i-could-do\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The only magic I could do&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0326w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-196\" alt=\"picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0326w\" src=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0326w-964x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0326w-964x1024.jpg 964w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0326w-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0326w.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I used to be able to blink my eyes to make the night turn into day. Only when I was 3 or 2 or 4. It was very special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why did you like to turn the night into the day?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because then I could get more fun. Like this,&#8221; he says, blinking and shaking his head and looking out the window. &#8220;I guess I can&#8217;t do it anymore. I can&#8217;t remember how I did it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any other magic you can do?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No. That was the only one magic I could do. It was a magic trick actually.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;J upon being read &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; for the first time. (Photos of playing with sparklers on a lake in Maine, July 28, 2014.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0315w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-195\" alt=\"picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0315w\" src=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0315w-1024x718.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0315w-1024x718.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0315w-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0315w.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0272w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-194\" alt=\"picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0272w\" src=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0272w-934x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0272w-934x1024.jpg 934w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0272w-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/picJasperMaineSparkler140728_0272w.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I used to be able to blink my eyes to make the night turn into day. Only when I was 3 or 2 or 4. It was very special.&#8221; Why did you like to turn the night into the day? &#8220;Because then I could get more fun. Like this,&#8221; he says, blinking and shaking his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}