{"id":4790,"date":"2011-02-23T14:13:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T22:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:51:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:51:39","slug":"what-harry-houdinis-real-name-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/what-harry-houdinis-real-name-was\/","title":{"rendered":"What Harry Houdini&#8217;s Real Name Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/harry-houdinis-real-name.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4791\" title=\"harry-houdinis-real-name\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/harry-houdinis-real-name.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/harry-houdinis-real-name.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/harry-houdinis-real-name-340x241.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Harry Houdini Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/harry-houdini-piloted-the-first-airplane-that-flew-over-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Harry Houdini Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harry Houdini\u2019s real name was actually Erik Weisz.\u00a0 When his family immigrated to America, they changed the spelling to Ehrich Weiss, which eventually resulted in people calling him \u201cEhrie\u201d and later \u201cHarry\u201d.\u00a0 He picked \u201cHoudini\u201d as his professional name in homage to the French magician Jean Eug\u00e8ne Robert-Houdin.\u00a0 He added the \u201ci\u201d because a friend of his, Jack Hayman, told him adding the \u201ci\u201d at the end would make it mean \u201clike Houdin\u201d in French, which of course isn\u2019t correct, but nevertheless resulted in \u201cHoudini\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Harry Houdini Facts Text Version Harry Houdini\u2019s real name was actually Erik Weisz.\u00a0 When his family immigrated to America, they changed the spelling to Ehrich Weiss, which eventually resulted in people calling him \u201cEhrie\u201d and later \u201cHarry\u201d.\u00a0 He picked \u201cHoudini\u201d as his professional name in homage to the French magician [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1268],"class_list":["post-4790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-harry-houdini-name"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7089,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions\/7089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}