{"id":2042,"date":"2015-07-27T16:43:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T21:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2015-07-27T16:43:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T21:43:22","slug":"happy-birthday-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=2042","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Bugs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BugsBunny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2044\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BugsBunny-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"BugsBunny\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BugsBunny-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BugsBunny-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BugsBunny.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Bob Berry<\/p>\n<p>Bugs Bunny, that &#8220;wascally wabbit&#8221; is 75 today.<\/p>\n<p>And isn&#8217;t it nice to know that Looney Tunes&#8221; Number One star, who entertained us on countless Saturday (or Sunday) mornings, doesn&#8217;t act his age either?<\/p>\n<p>Countless, by the way, including various. mornings in our formative <em>and beyond<\/em> years, in the aftermath of &#8220;should have known better\/got moving earlier\/what were we thinking&#8221; OR &#8220;Hey, Bugs was on&#8221; moments.<\/p>\n<p>Created by the great Warner Brothers cartoon department, Bugs made his &#8220;major league&#8221; debut on July 27, 1940. &#8220;A Wild Hare&#8221; was the first film to feature Bugs and Elmer Fudd was hunter and hunted, and the first with Mel Blanc providing Bugs&#8217; voice and the signature line &#8220;What&#8217;s Up, Doc&#8221;. It was nominated, but did not win an Oscar for Best Cartoon Short Subject.<\/p>\n<p>What was up with that, Doc?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0S0kJXm-lRs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bob Berry Bugs Bunny, that &#8220;wascally wabbit&#8221; is 75 today. And isn&#8217;t it nice to know that Looney Tunes&#8221; Number One star, who entertained us on countless Saturday (or Sunday) mornings, doesn&#8217;t act his age either? Countless, by the way, including various. mornings in our formative and beyond years, in the aftermath of &#8220;should have known better\/got moving earlier\/what were we thinking&#8221; OR &#8220;Hey, Bugs was on&#8221; moments. Created by the great Warner Brothers cartoon department, Bugs made his &#8220;major league&#8221; debut on July 27, 1940. &#8220;A Wild Hare&#8221; was the first film to feature Bugs and Elmer Fudd&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,2],"tags":[233,234,239,237,236,240,235,238],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-berry","category-keener","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-bugs-bunny-75th-birthday","tag-chuck-jones","tag-elmer-fudd","tag-looney-tunes","tag-mel-blanc","tag-merrie-melodies","tag-warner-brothers-cartoons","wpcat-160-id","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}