{"id":1552,"date":"2007-12-18T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/12\/18\/sometimes-a-con-is-magical\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T19:16:00","slug":"sometimes-a-con-is-magical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/12\/18\/sometimes-a-con-is-magical\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes a Con IS Magical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Okay, so it wasn&rsquo;t actually magic, but sometimes, in my opinion, a quality con is simply magical.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>This is the case with my magician of the day, Rotina Mavhunga of Zimbabwe.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>According to an article at <a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/200711220783.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allafrica.com<\/a>, &ldquo;The Financial Gazette reported last month that the government had squandered $5 billion worth of taxpayers&rsquo; money and given away a farm to a pseudo medium, Rotina Mavhunga, after she claimed she could extract diesel from a rock by just pointing her magical stick at it.&rdquo;<span>&nbsp; <\/span>I guess no one in President Magabe&rsquo;s Cabinet could persuade him that diesel is extracted from crude oil through a purification process, and that it seemed highly unlikely that Rotina could not only get crude oil, but purify it too.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Also, the concept of paying after getting results seems to have alluded them all as well.<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>Now Zimbabwe is preparing to haul Rotina into court for pulling one over on the government.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>My question is, who is punishing the government for being this dense?<span>&nbsp; <\/span>I think in all fairness, Rotina should give back the money, etc., not be punished and everyone walks away.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>You don&rsquo;t take Rotina to court, you don&rsquo;t have to admit that you fell under her spell.<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>FREE ROTINA MAVHUNGA!<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so it wasn&rsquo;t actually magic, but sometimes, in my opinion, a quality con is simply magical.&nbsp; This is the case with my magician of the day, Rotina Mavhunga of Zimbabwe.&nbsp; According to an article at allafrica.com, &ldquo;The Financial Gazette reported last month that the government had squandered $5 billion worth of taxpayers&rsquo; money and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2007\/12\/18\/sometimes-a-con-is-magical\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sometimes a Con IS Magical<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/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\/1552"}],"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=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}