{"id":19893,"date":"2018-11-27T07:42:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T12:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=19893"},"modified":"2018-11-27T07:42:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T12:42:26","slug":"richard-jay-potash-1946-1948-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/19893","title":{"rendered":"Richard Jay Potash 1946? 1948? &#8211; 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve lost an amazing scholar, actor, magician. I&#8217;ll quote myself <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/54\">circa 2006<\/a>, &#8220;I\u2019m a big fan of Mr. Jay\u2019s \u2013 he fits my mental model of a perfect sleight-of-hand artist \u2013 well read, raffish, incredibly good at what he does.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/25\/obituaries\/ricky-jay-dead.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19894\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/merlin_68113577_e9d9e438-4131-4776-9727-8fa70b13e220-superJumbo-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/merlin_68113577_e9d9e438-4131-4776-9727-8fa70b13e220-superJumbo-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/merlin_68113577_e9d9e438-4131-4776-9727-8fa70b13e220-superJumbo-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/merlin_68113577_e9d9e438-4131-4776-9727-8fa70b13e220-superJumbo-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/merlin_68113577_e9d9e438-4131-4776-9727-8fa70b13e220-superJumbo-768x767.jpg 768w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/merlin_68113577_e9d9e438-4131-4776-9727-8fa70b13e220-superJumbo.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2SiH9zX\">Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay<\/a> is available to stream on Amazon; it gets a thumbs-up from me. Back when it was released, I drove to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newburyportmovies.com\/\">The Screening Room,<\/a> a wee indy theater in Newburyport MA, to see it. Worth the trip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newburyportmovies.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19895 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Capture-1024x983.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Capture-1024x983.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Capture-300x288.jpg 300w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Capture-768x737.jpg 768w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Capture-312x300.jpg 312w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Capture.jpg 1376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vulture has a good round up of clips showing Mr. Jay&#8217;s sleight of hand skills <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2018\/11\/ricky-jay-magic-tricks-best-videos.html\">here<\/a>, and I&#8217;ll leave you with this not great quality video of Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants. Goodbye, Mr. Jay &#8211; I really wish I&#8217;d had a chance to see you perform live.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FtgUSUHnzLI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve lost an amazing scholar, actor, magician. I&#8217;ll quote myself circa 2006, &#8220;I\u2019m a big fan of Mr. Jay\u2019s \u2013 he fits my mental model of a perfect sleight-of-hand artist \u2013 well read, raffish, incredibly good at what he does.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/19893\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wunderkammer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-5aR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19897,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19893\/revisions\/19897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}