{"id":3084,"date":"2016-10-26T04:50:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T11:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2016-10-26T04:50:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T11:50:17","slug":"what-about-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3084","title":{"rendered":"What About Magic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from Chinx:<\/strong><br \/>\nIf there&#8217;s nothing supernatural, what&#8217;s magic and how does it break every known law?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s magic?  <em>What<\/em> magic?  If there actually is some magic around that isn&#8217;t simply an illusion, that would be big points for the supernatural, but it still has to be there.  So do comment and let us know what you&#8217;re referring to, would you kindly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from Chinx: If there&#8217;s nothing supernatural, what&#8217;s magic and how does it break every known law? Answer by SmartLX: What&#8217;s magic? What magic? If there actually is some magic around that isn&#8217;t simply an illusion, that would be big points for the supernatural, but it still has to be there. So do comment and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3084\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What About Magic?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[657,66],"class_list":["post-3084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","tag-magic","tag-supernatural"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-NK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3085,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}