{"id":96,"date":"2005-12-11T18:12:21","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T01:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2005-12-11T18:12:21","modified_gmt":"2005-12-12T01:12:21","slug":"the-magic-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"The Magic Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Took Sydney and her friend Katherine (and Pammy, of course) to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magiccastle.com\">The Magic Castle<\/a> in Hollywood.  Very cool, as none of them had ever been.  I&#8217;ve been many times, and was in fact a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magiccastle.com\/juniors\/index.cfm\">junior member<\/a> when I was 14.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a private club, and generally only open to members and guests over 21.  Strict dress code of coats and ties for the men, cocktail dresses for the ladies.  Unless it&#8217;s Sunday brunch of course, when there is no dress code, and kids are allowed.  They got a real kick out of it.  Right from the start, when you walk in &#8211; you have to say &#8220;open sesame&#8221; to a little owl, and the bookcase slides open for you to enter.  There is Irma the ghost playing the piano, two close up rooms, and two stage rooms &#8211; and all kinds of other secret stuff to see.  Very cool for the kids, and something different for the adults to do &#8211; especially for evenings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took Sydney and her friend Katherine (and Pammy, of course) to The Magic Castle in Hollywood. Very cool, as none of them had ever been. I&#8217;ve been many times, and was in fact a junior member when I was 14. It&#8217;s a private club, and generally only open to members and guests over 21. Strict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}