{"id":1370,"date":"2003-09-05T19:47:32","date_gmt":"2003-09-05T23:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/05\/the-tragedy-behind-david-blaines-obses"},"modified":"2003-09-05T19:47:32","modified_gmt":"2003-09-05T23:47:32","slug":"the-tragedy-behind-david-blaines-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/05\/the-tragedy-behind-david-blaines-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tragedy Behind David Blaine&#8217;s Obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a970'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"560\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"120\" height=\"350\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/lonbridge.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"319\"><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"407\">\n<p>U.S. illusionist David Blaine embarks on 44 days of starvation<br \/>\n        and solitary confinement in a glass box hung from a crane by the river<br \/>\n        Thames in London September 5, 2003. Blaine will go without food and will<br \/>\n        only have access to water fed through a tube for the 44 day stunt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/allnews\/content_objectid=13372099_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-THE-TRAGEDY-BEHIND-DAVID-BLAINE-S-OBSESSION-name_page.html\">from the Mirror<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. illusionist David Blaine embarks on 44 days of starvation and solitary confinement in a glass box hung from a crane by the river Thames in London September 5, 2003. Blaine will go without food and will only have access &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/05\/the-tragedy-behind-david-blaines-obsession\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}