{"id":11711,"date":"2007-07-09T23:32:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T06:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/07\/09\/kill-da-wabbit.html"},"modified":"2007-07-09T23:32:08","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T06:32:08","slug":"kill_da_wabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/09\/kill_da_wabbit.html","title":{"rendered":"Kill da Wabbit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bugs as Brunhilde\" height=\"217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/bugs-brunhilda.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/What%27s_Opera_Doc\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s Opera, Doc?<\/a><\/em>, voted by animation professionals as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_50_Greatest_Cartoons\" target=\"_blank\">the greatest cartoon of all time<\/a>, has got it all:&nbsp; wabbit-hunting, Bugs in drag, classical music (at once both preserving and desecrating Wagner for all time), breaking the fourth wall, and some kick-ass art &#8212; and was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/article\/233518\" target=\"_blank\">made on the sly<\/a> by the Termite Terrace team.<\/p>\n<p>The Chuck Jones-directed masterpiece first aired 50 years ago last Friday. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=353heNgg_aw\" target=\"_blank\">Watch it yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2007\/07\/08\/whats-opera-doc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neatorama<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s Opera, Doc?, voted by animation professionals as the greatest cartoon of all time, has got it all:&nbsp; wabbit-hunting, Bugs in drag, classical music (at once both preserving and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-cartoons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9053,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/27\/cartoon_cartoon.html","url_meta":{"origin":11711,"position":0},"title":"Cartoon-cartoon!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Feb-06 10:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The best 20 cartoon characters of all time -- according to these guys, at least. 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