{"id":19792,"date":"2013-05-15T13:44:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T11:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/mr-impossible-hammers-a-nail-into-his-head\/"},"modified":"2013-05-15T13:44:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T11:44:55","slug":"mr-impossible-hammers-a-nail-into-his-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mr-impossible-hammers-a-nail-into-his-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Impossible Hammers a Nail into his head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watch as Port Elizabeth based Lee Ah Kun, in his guise as Mr Impossible \u2013 escape artist and bizarre stunt performer, practises some mind over matter stunts that he performed recently for members of the Animal Welfare Society Club 100.<\/p>\n<p>Lee says; \u201cMy theme for this particular show centred around exploring the concept of \u201cmind over body\u201d and how one can utilise the mind\/body connection to filter out and control pain.<\/p>\n<p>As I already had the chance to wow the club\u2019s members last time with some feats of escapology, I decided to break out some of my more bizarre type stunts this time round and entertained them with the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fire eating \u2013 extinguishing lit torches with my bare hands and mouth, including holding one between my teeth for a few moments.<\/li>\n<li>Human blockhead \u2013 hammering a 10cm nail into my head.<\/li>\n<li>Walking on broken glass \u2013 walking barefoot across 2 metres of broken pieces of glass, including a finale piece where an audience member stands on my chest while I lay down on top of the glass without my t-shirt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The show was well received and certainly had everyone on the edge of their seats, with some even watching key moments through their fingers\u2026 lol<\/p>\n<p>It was a pleasure being invited back and once again enjoyed lending my unique talents in support of the generous work the club does for the Animal Welfare Society in PE.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch as Port Elizabeth based Lee Ah Kun, in his guise as Mr Impossible \u2013 escape artist and bizarre stunt performer, practises some mind over matter stunts that he performed recently for members of the Animal Welfare Society Club 100. Lee says; \u201cMy theme for this particular show centred around exploring the concept of \u201cmind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-19792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}