{"id":11249,"date":"2017-05-09T06:38:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=11249"},"modified":"2017-05-09T06:47:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:47:19","slug":"tom-terrific-brush-with-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/09\/tom-terrific-brush-with-greatness\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Terrific &#8212; Brush With Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: Irresistible minutiae follows.<\/p>\n<p>Many of you may be too young to remember or even know about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Terrific\">Tom Terrific<\/a>, but as a kid many of us watched these simple cartoons as a segment on the long running Captain Kangaroo. The cartoons were created between 1957 -1959 by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gene_Deitch\">Gene Deith <\/a>featuring the hero Tom Terrific (who could change into any shape he wanted), his sidekick Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, and their foe Crabby Appleton (who, as I recall was all about lollipops, at least in some episodes).<\/p>\n<p>So you may be wondering why I mention this cartoon here on HolyokeMass.com. We encountered a Tom Terrific cartoon &#8220;Crabby Appleton&#8217;s Dragon&#8221; &#8212; the link is below. It is nearly a 12 minute video, but if you are in a hurry fast forward to 6:42 and listen carefully. Terrytoons Studio was at that time a subsidiary of CBS. Wish I knew the backstory to this audio reference.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CAU3FNua3cE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: Irresistible minutiae follows. Many of you may be too young to remember or even know about Tom Terrific, but as a kid many of us watched these simple cartoons as a segment on the long running Captain Kangaroo. The cartoons were created between 1957 -1959 by Gene Deith featuring the hero Tom Terrific (who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11253,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions\/11253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}