{"id":589,"date":"2012-01-17T15:22:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T22:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2012-01-17T15:22:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T22:22:02","slug":"cab-calloway-as-a-ghost-walrus-in-old-betty-boop-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/2012\/01\/17\/cab-calloway-as-a-ghost-walrus-in-old-betty-boop-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cab Calloway as a Ghost Walrus in old Betty Boop cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/2012\/01\/17\/cab-calloway-as-a-ghost-walrus-in-old-betty-boop-cartoon\/ghost-walrus\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-614\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-614\" title=\"ghost walrus\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ghost-walrus.jpg?resize=462%2C315\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s cool on a couple of levels. First off, the video begins with Cab Calloway dancing to &#8220;Minnie the Moocher&#8221; in front of his band, busting some serious moves. The 1931 precursor to the moonwalk, the Crip walk, and James Brown&#8217;s dance moves all in one. This must have blown people&#8217;s minds back in the 30&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HaZOXF83zBg\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HaZOXF83zBg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ghost walrus appears at 4:21. Kids today, they have no idea how surreal old cartoons were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s cool on a couple of levels. First off, the video begins with Cab Calloway dancing to &#8220;Minnie the Moocher&#8221; in front of his band, busting some serious moves. The 1931 precursor to the moonwalk, the Crip walk, and James Brown&#8217;s dance moves all in one. This must have blown people&#8217;s minds back in &#8230; <a title=\"Cab Calloway as a Ghost Walrus in old Betty Boop cartoon\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/2012\/01\/17\/cab-calloway-as-a-ghost-walrus-in-old-betty-boop-cartoon\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3peFG-9v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}