{"id":8882,"date":"2002-11-15T16:46:02","date_gmt":"2002-11-15T21:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/11\/15\/mickey-weasel\/"},"modified":"2002-11-15T16:46:02","modified_gmt":"2002-11-15T21:46:02","slug":"mickey-weasel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/11\/mickey-weasel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Weasel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>A<br \/>\n700-year-old fresco has been found during restoration work on a south Austrian<br \/>\nchurch with a figure with round ears and pointed nose that one art historian<br \/>\ntoday said bore a striking resemblance to Mickey Mouse. <\/p>\n<p>If true, it<br \/>\nwould predate the creation of Walt Disney&#8217;s beloved cartoon character by more<br \/>\nthan 600 years. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now it&#8217;s all clear&#8221;, remarked one local hotel owner.<br \/>\n&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t Walt Disney who invented Mickey Mouse, but one of our ancestors 700<br \/>\nyears ago.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The local tourist bureau speculated the village could become<br \/>\na pilgrimage site for Mickey fans around the world. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;According to<br \/>\nlegend, the weasel was fertilised through its mouth and gave birth through its<br \/>\nears, which is why the ears of the fresco creature may have been sketched large,<br \/>\nMahlknecht said.<\/font> <br \/>[<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/articles\/2002\/11\/15\/1037080897364.html\"\ntarget=_self>Full story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 700-year-old fresco has been found during restoration work on a south Austrian church with a figure with round ears and pointed nose that one art historian today said bore&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}