{"id":13164,"date":"2015-08-08T18:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T22:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13164"},"modified":"2021-03-22T21:59:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T01:59:41","slug":"11-mischievous-facts-about-bugs-bunny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13164","title":{"rendered":"11 Mischievous Facts About Bugs Bunny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z080815bugsbunny_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Shaunacy Ferro <\/strong>and<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental_Floss<\/a> <\/strong>present<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/66703\/11-mischievous-facts-about-bugs-bunny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11 Mischievous Facts About Bugs Bunny<\/a>. \u00a0 <\/strong>Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1. He first appeared as an extra in a Porky Pig\u00a0cartoon.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nThe then-unnamed rabbit was created in 1938 for a cartoon in which Porky Pig went hunting, but the actual character wouldn&#8217;t appear until years later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>4. His mannerisms were partially inspired by Clark Gable.<\/strong><br \/>\nBugs\u2019 nonchalant, carrot-eating manner was inspired by a scene in <em>It Happened One Night<\/em>, when the fast-talking Clark Gable snacks on carrots while leaning on a fence. The character also took inspiration from Groucho Marx.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. The creators were worried he would seem like a bully.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cIt was very important that he be provoked, because otherwise he\u2019d be a bully,\u201d director Chuck Jones said in an\u00a0interview in 1998. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want that. We wanted him to be a nice person.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaunacy Ferro and Mental_Floss present 11 Mischievous Facts About Bugs Bunny. \u00a0 Here are three of my favorites&#8230; 1. He<\/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":[56,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","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\/13164","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=13164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26889,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13164\/revisions\/26889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}