{"id":1706,"date":"2026-08-09T21:15:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:15:32","slug":"lightbulbs-thru-girl-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/lightbulbs-thru-girl-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightbulbs Thru Girl Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joe-conrad-lightbulbs-thru-girl-ig-080926-1024x736.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joe-conrad-lightbulbs-thru-girl-ig-080926-1024x736.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joe-conrad-lightbulbs-thru-girl-ig-080926-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joe-conrad-lightbulbs-thru-girl-ig-080926-768x552.jpg 768w, https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joe-conrad-lightbulbs-thru-girl-ig-080926-380x273.jpg 380w, https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joe-conrad-lightbulbs-thru-girl-ig-080926-800x575.jpg 800w, https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joe-conrad-lightbulbs-thru-girl-ig-080926.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Not my largest illusion &#8211; but &#8216;Lightbulbs Thru Girl&#8217; is easily one of my favorites. Because it plays close. While something much bigger is being set up behind the curtain, this one is right in your face &#8211; intimate, visual, no distance to hide behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the magicians asking: Cliff Wiggs at <a href=\"https:\/\/prolinemagicshop.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/prolinemagicshop.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proline Magic<\/a> built this for me. Actually he built me several versions over the years, each one better than the last. That&#8217;s the kind of craftsmanship that makes the difference on stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not my largest illusion &#8211; but &#8216;Lightbulbs Thru Girl&#8217; is easily one of my favorites. Because it plays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-behind-the-scenes","7":"category-other-magicians","8":"category-touring"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}