{"id":836,"date":"2013-05-15T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T03:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog?p=836"},"modified":"2013-05-15T11:26:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T03:26:03","slug":"houdinis-contract-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/houdinis-contract-rider\/","title":{"rendered":"Houdini&#8217;s Contract Rider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Besides the magic and illusions in our show, I am also very heavily involved in the staging side of things. For that reason I am a crazy about old, classic entertainment contracts along this their related associated riders (quite rare to come across).<\/p>\n<p>For that reason I was quite excited when I came across this &#8220;<em>Scene &amp; Prop List<\/em>&#8221; (essentially also a <strong>Backstage Contract Rider<\/strong> in it&#8217;s day &amp; time) from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Houdini\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Houdini<\/a> show.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicsam.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Society Of American Magicians<\/a> (SAM) for the original find. Enjoy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-837\" alt=\"houdini's contract rider\" src=\"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blogwp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/houdini-contract-rider.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/houdini-contract-rider.jpg 390w, https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/houdini-contract-rider-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Besides the magic and illusions in our show, I am also very heavily involved in the staging side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[38,53,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-behind-the-scenes","7":"category-other-magicians","8":"tag-blog","9":"tag-harry-houdini","10":"tag-other-magicians-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","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=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeconrad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}