{"id":1160,"date":"2003-09-30T01:33:04","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T05:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2003\/09\/30\/\/"},"modified":"2003-09-30T01:33:04","modified_gmt":"2003-09-30T05:33:04","slug":"1160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2003\/09\/1160\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/david-blaine.jpg\" alt=\"David Blaine\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidblaine.com\/\" rel=\"external\">David Blaine<\/a> is half a century too late.<\/p>\n<p>In 1952, hypnotist <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/3102432.stm\" rel=\"external\">Jack Wafer<\/a><\/strong> hid away in Queens Road, Brighton, and starved himself for 76 days, nearly twice as long as David&#8217;s attempt of 44 days. The Times says he survived for 76 days in a glass case in Brighton on only soda water and cigarettes. Members of the public paid a shilling to watch him. Could that be where they get the expression &#8216;wafer thin&#8217; from?<\/p>\n<p>I just discovered <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flambingo.net\/\" rel=\"external\">flambingo<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; a fellow Brightoner who also blogged this. Lots of good stuff there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Blaine is half a century too late. In 1952, hypnotist Jack Wafer hid away in Queens Road, Brighton, and starved himself for 76 days, nearly twice as long as David&#8217;s attempt of 44 days. The Times says he survived for 76 days in a glass case in Brighton on only soda water and cigarettes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}