{"id":239,"date":"2023-03-11T20:08:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T20:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinklikeaconjurer.com\/wp22\/?p=239"},"modified":"2023-03-11T20:08:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T20:08:24","slug":"bruce-cervons-jumbo-cervon-monte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinklikeaconjurer.com\/wp22\/bruce-cervons-jumbo-cervon-monte\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Cervon&#8217;s &#8220;Jumbo Cervon Monte&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many words have been and will be put out there in praise and appreciation for the wonderful contributions to magic that Bruce Cervon has made over the years. I was so stunned by the news of his death that I have been unable to find words of my own to convey my appreciation for knowing this man of such personal integrity, generosity, and loyalty. He was truly a treasured friend.<\/p>\n<p>I was going over some archives, and found the following video I made while he was visiting my home about a decade and a half ago. Here he explains the \u201creal work\u201d on a favorite creation of his, Jumbo Cervon Monte. It\u2019s a \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d example of the fun he had playing the charming charlatan&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Bruce Cervon &quot;Jumbo Cervon Monte&quot; Behind the Scenes with Ron Bauer\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BitXkxyEbKM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many words have been and will be put out there in praise and appreciation for the wonderful contributions to magic that Bruce Cervon has made over the years. I was so stunned by the news of his death that I have been unable to find words of my own to convey my appreciation for knowing &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thinklikeaconjurer.com\/wp22\/bruce-cervons-jumbo-cervon-monte\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bruce Cervon&#8217;s &#8220;Jumbo Cervon Monte&#8221;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241,"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-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":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bruce Cervon&#039;s &quot;Jumbo Cervon Monte&quot; - Think Like a Conjurer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thinklikeaconjurer.com\/wp22\/bruce-cervons-jumbo-cervon-monte\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bruce Cervon&#039;s &quot;Jumbo Cervon Monte&quot; - Think Like a Conjurer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Many words have been and will be put out there in praise and appreciation for the wonderful contributions to magic that Bruce Cervon has made over the years. 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