{"id":129020,"date":"2021-10-15T06:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T13:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/new-zealand-citys-official-wizard-was-taken-off-its-payroll-because-magic-is-dead"},"modified":"2021-10-15T06:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T13:23:15","slug":"new-zealand-citys-official-wizard-was-taken-off-its-payroll-because-magic-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/new-zealand-citys-official-wizard-was-taken-off-its-payroll-because-magic-is-dead","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand City\u2019s \u2018Official Wizard\u2019 Was Taken Off Its Payroll Because Magic Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-zealand-citys-official-wizard-was-taken-off-its-payroll-because-magic-is-dead2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand city seems to have left itself vulnerable to a revenge hex.<\/p>\n<p>The city council of Christchurch announced that it will stop paying its official wizard $16,000 ($10,400 USD) a year in December, New Zealand news site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/the-press\/news\/126624095\/council-to-stop-paying-the-wizard-16000-a-year-after-23-years-on-the-payroll#comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stuff reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Brackenbury Channell (aka the Wizard) has been serving as the city\u2019s appointed necromancer since the olden days of 1998. Over the past few decades he has made a total of $368,000 (roughly $258,825 USD) \u201cto provide acts of wizardry and other wizard-like-services \u2014 as part of promotional work for the city of Christchurch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Zealand city seems to have left itself vulnerable to a revenge hex. The city council of Christchurch announced that it will stop paying its official wizard $16,000 ($10,400 USD) a year in December, New Zealand news site Stuff reported. Ian Brackenbury Channell (aka the Wizard) has been serving as the city\u2019s appointed necromancer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}