{"id":7226,"date":"2025-09-14T05:45:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=7226"},"modified":"2025-09-14T05:45:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:45:49","slug":"disgusting-mouse-cartoon-repulses-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/disgusting-mouse-cartoon-repulses-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgusting Mouse Cartoon Repulses Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">November 18, 1928\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NEW YORK \u2013 The new cartoon <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steamboat Willie<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has left an entire nation disgusted and appalled by its grotesque mouse protagonist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mouse, who goes by the name \u201cMickey,\u201d is sure to repulse any morally reputable filmgoer with his gross little mouse-man hands and his enormous saucer-like ears, which swivel with nauseating rapidity with every turn of his head. His ribald and impudent manner has already provoked fierce backlash from audiences, who have branded him a \u201cverminous disciple of Lucifer\u201d and \u201cDoctor Moreau\u2019s most lamentable creation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI watched that motion picture a little over a week ago, and I haven\u2019t been able to get a lick of sleep since,\u201d said Arthur Crampwell, a cocaine salesman and father of four. \u201cI know that he\u2019s called Mickey\u2013whether he\u2019s Irish, I can\u2019t tell you, but I can tell you that he is a wicked, revolting little animal. I hope if there\u2019s a sequel we\u2019ll get to see him break his neck in a mousetrap. That\u2019d really put a smile on my face, I can tell you..\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His ribald and impudent manner has already provoked fierce backlash from audiences, who have branded him a \u201cverminous disciple of Lucifer\u201d and \u201cDoctor Moreau\u2019s most lamentable creation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7228,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7226\/revisions\/7228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}