{"id":12419,"date":"2015-04-18T05:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T09:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12419"},"modified":"2015-04-11T12:57:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T16:57:17","slug":"21-wonderful-facts-about-the-wizard-of-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12419","title":{"rendered":"21 Wonderful Facts About &#8220;The Wizard of Oz&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z041815wizardoz_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"672\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<strong><span class=\"s2\">Cory Mahoney<\/span><\/strong> and<strong> Hollywood.com\u00a0<\/strong> have posted<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywood.com\/news\/movies\/60016402\/facts-about-the-wizard-of-oz?utm_content=buffer06d70&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> 21 Wonderful Facts About <em>The Wizard of Oz.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 There are some new [at least to me] facts and here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1. The snow the wakes Dorothy up from the poppy field was 100% asbestos.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even though the health hazards had been known for years. [Hey &#8211; that is not a wonderful fact! &#8211; Craig]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>4. And that horse [the horse of a different color see in Oz] originally had a much larger part in the film.<\/strong> The horse, which was originally a striped with different colors and could speak, joined the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion, along with the Wizard, to save Dorothy from the Witch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>6. Because Margaret Hamilton&#8217;s performance as the Wicked Witch of the West was so frightening, many of her scenes were trimmed or deleted entirely.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were thought to be\u00a0<em>too<\/em> frightening.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Cory Mahoney and Hollywood.com\u00a0 have posted 21 Wonderful Facts About The Wizard of Oz.\u00a0 There are some new [at least<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12421,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419\/revisions\/12421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}