{"id":486,"date":"2014-11-19T02:40:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T02:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2014-11-19T03:18:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T03:18:29","slug":"long-mouse-years-big-mouse-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Long Mouse Years, Big Mouse Ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_488\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/the-art-of-walt-disney.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-488\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-488 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/the-art-of-walt-disney-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"the art of walt disney\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/the-art-of-walt-disney-217x300.jpg 217w, http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/the-art-of-walt-disney-743x1024.jpg 743w, http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/the-art-of-walt-disney.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cherished book in the Tipsy Table library.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our favorite Mickster turns 86 today. No, not Mr. Jagger, but The Little Big Man, Mickey Mouse. What age is that in mouse years?<\/p>\n<p>It seems today\u2019s journalism is 30 of this and\u00a020 of that, so today Tipsy Table celebrates\u00a0MouseMan&#8217;s 8th decade with 8 trivia facts that may surprise you about The Real Mick:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is rumored that Walt Disney was afraid of mice, but remained sympathetic to the small creatures.<\/li>\n<li>Mortimer was his original name, but Walt\u2019s wife Lillian suggested the change to Mickey, after one of her friends Mickey Rooney.<\/li>\n<li>Mickey is notorious for the three-finger discount\u2014throughout the years the studio saved a mouse-zillion dollars in the time it would have taken artists to draw that fourth finger.<\/li>\n<li>Mickey\u2019s ears always appear round, no matter what the angle, and always face forward.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_489\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Micky-in-Macys.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-489\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-489 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Micky-in-Macys-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"Macy's Parade, 1929.  Photo courtesy William J. Crawford.\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Micky-in-Macys-191x300.jpg 191w, http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Micky-in-Macys-652x1024.jpg 652w, http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Micky-in-Macys.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Macy&#8217;s Parade, 1934. Photo courtesy William J. Crawford.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Early artists of at Walt Disney Studios found it amusing to draw caricatures of Mickey and hide the \u201cspots\u201d in other Disney films. The game of finding the famous mouse continues in all the Disney theme parks. Check out the fun at <a href=\"http:\/\/findingmickey.squarespace.com%20\/\">http:\/\/findingmickey.squarespace.com \/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mickey\u2019s first spoken words were \u201cHot Dogs!\u201d in the 1929 short \u201cKarnival Kid.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Mickey was the first cartoon character awarded a star on Hollywood&#8217;s Walk of Fame in 1978.<\/li>\n<li>The Big Guy first appeared in the Macy\u2019s Santa Claus Parade on 29 November, 1934. He boasted 25 handlers&#8211;more than Justin Bieber has today.<a href=\"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Happy-Birthday-Mickey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-491 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Happy-Birthday-Mickey-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Birthday Mickey\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Happy-Birthday-Mickey-297x300.jpg 297w, http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Happy-Birthday-Mickey-1014x1024.jpg 1014w, http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Happy-Birthday-Mickey.jpg 1130w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our favorite Mickster turns 86 today. No, not Mr. Jagger, but The Little Big Man, Mickey Mouse. What age is that in mouse years? It seems today\u2019s journalism is 30 of this and\u00a020 of that, so today Tipsy Table celebrates\u00a0MouseMan&#8217;s 8th decade with 8 trivia facts that may surprise you about The Real Mick: It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tipsytable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}