{"id":65,"date":"2023-05-15T21:14:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T21:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catherineelcik.com\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2025-06-15T18:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:34:21","slug":"things-we-thought-impossible","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catherineelcik.com\/?page_id=65","title":{"rendered":"THINGS SHE THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catherineelcik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Reggie.jpg\" alt=\"Stylized portrait of how Things We Thought Impossible looks on the wall in my office. \" class=\"wp-image-94\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Stylized portrait of how <em>Things She Thought Impossible<\/em> looked on the wall in my office while I was drafting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>PITCH: Conceived as <em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel <\/em>of magic, <em>Things She Thought Impossible <\/em>chronicles sleight-of-hand magician Regina Dooley, from her rise and spectacular fall in 1950s Chicago after a betrayal she can\u2019t forgive to her reckoning sixty years later\u2014not just with the woman who betrayed her\u2014but with all the ways Reggie betrayed herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>STATUS: Querying<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FIRST LINE: Regina Dooley is the best sleight of hand magician that no one\u2019s ever heard of, and it\u2019s all Sam Anderson\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Subscribe to my newsletter!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/hibou.substack.com\/embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" style=\"border:1px solid #EEE; background:white;\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITCH: Conceived as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel of magic, Things She Thought Impossible chronicles sleight-of-hand magician Regina Dooley, from her rise and spectacular fall in 1950s Chicago after a betrayal she can\u2019t forgive to her reckoning sixty years later\u2014not just with the woman who betrayed her\u2014but with all the ways Reggie betrayed herself. STATUS: Querying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-65","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherineelcik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherineelcik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherineelcik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherineelcik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherineelcik.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherineelcik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/www.catherineelcik.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catherineelcik.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}