{"id":3512,"date":"2021-09-24T09:11:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T08:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2021-09-24T09:11:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T08:11:41","slug":"the-magic-circle-appoints-its-youngest-and-first-female-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2021\/09\/24\/the-magic-circle-appoints-its-youngest-and-first-female-president\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic Circle appoints its youngest, and first female, president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/09\/120669917_megan976.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/09\/120669917_megan976.jpg 976w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/09\/120669917_megan976-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/09\/120669917_megan976-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 976px) 100vw, 976px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Times have changed in the magic industry. Tricks aren&#8217;t just about sawing people in half these days &#8211; they also teach people about climate change.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s different at the top too &#8211; a 28-year-old woman has been elected president of The Magic Circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the first time a woman has held the title in its 116 year history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Megan Swann is now the president of the organisation, founded in 1905, for British magicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She&#8217;s also its youngest. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/newsbeat-58666725\"> More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times have changed in the magic industry. Tricks aren&#8217;t just about sawing people in half these days &#8211; they also teach people about climate change. It&#8217;s different at the top too &#8211; a 28-year-old woman &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}