{"id":1261,"date":"2010-03-17T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/03\/17\/quest-books-loves-magical-buffet-readers\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T16:20:00","slug":"quest-books-loves-magical-buffet-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/03\/17\/quest-books-loves-magical-buffet-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"Quest Books Loves Magical Buffet Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quest Books, the fine folks who brought us &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2009\/11\/08\/russian-magic\/\"target=\"_blank\">Russian Magic<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2009\/04\/21\/a-new-science-of-the-paranormal\/\"target=\"_blank\">A New Science of the Paranormal<\/a>&#8220;, love Magical Buffet readers!  To prove their devotion to you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.questbooks.net\/\"target=\"_blank\">Quest Books <\/a>will be giving away a free copy of &#8220;A Dictionary of Gnosticism&#8221; by Andrew Phillip Smith (<a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2010\/03\/14\/reading-the-gnostics\/\"target=\"_blank\">Remember, the guy who wrote the last article we published<\/a>.) and a Quest Books tote bag to one lucky Magical Buffet subscriber.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gnosticism-cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gnosticism-cover-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1981\" \/><\/a>How do you get the free swag?  It&#8217;s easy!  Subscribe to The Magical Buffet!  On March 31, 2010 we will randomly select a subscriber of The Buffet!  Already a subscriber?  Already entered my friend!  The winner will be notified at the email address provided with their subscription, at which time we&#8217;ll get the name and address of the winner.  Then faster than you can say &#8220;Dude, this is sweet,&#8221; you&#8217;ll receive a package from Quest Books!<\/p>\n<p>I can sense your concern.  How do you know this will truly be random?  You&#8217;ll be happy to know that after careful consideration and consultation with experts I have devised a fool proof system.  I don&#8217;t want to bog you down with the technicalities, but it will involve a bottle of &#8220;Menage a Trois Folie a Deux California Red Wine&#8221;, closed eyes, and a loose center scroll wheel on my mouse.<\/p>\n<p>To conclude, if you have found yourself saying any of these following things:<\/p>\n<p>I really like The Magical Buffet.<br \/>\nI really liked that article &#8220;Reading the Gnostics&#8221;.<br \/>\nI really like free stuff.<br \/>\nI really like Quest Books and The Magical Buffet attempting to buy my affection.<\/p>\n<p>You should subscribe to The Magical Buffet!  Not only will you never miss a post again, you could win, what I can honestly say is an amazing reference book (&#8220;A Dictionary of Gnosticism&#8221;!  Weren&#8217;t you paying attention?).<\/p>\n<p>Pssst!  To subscribe just click the word Subscribe in our banner and give us your email address.  I swear on my copy of &#8220;Absolute Watchmen&#8221; that The Magical Buffet will never give your email address to anyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on in to see how Quest Books is proving their love to Magical Buffet readers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}