{"id":907,"date":"2013-02-09T10:16:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T17:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disneypostcards.com\/?p=907"},"modified":"2013-05-16T07:33:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T14:33:25","slug":"nt0542-professor-von-drake-squeaker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/nt0542-professor-von-drake-squeaker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NT0542 &#8211; Professor Von Drake Squeaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/disneypostcards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NT0542.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-896\" alt=\"NT0542\" src=\"http:\/\/disneypostcards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NT0542-190x300.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NT0542-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NT0542.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><em>I decided to repost this entry &#8211; after rereading my original post from the other day&#8230;I thought it was dumb! \u00a0So I re-wrote this post to be a little more informative. \u00a0Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The other day I got rather lucky on eBay. \u00a0It was one of those times when you happen to be in the right place at the right time. \u00a0At the end of the day, I got this and another squeaker for a very reasonable price. \u00a0Filling holes in the collection cheaply is always a great feeling!<\/p>\n<p>In case you were wondering, Professor von Drake first came on the scene in 1961, introduced as Donald&#8217;s uncle, he often hosted the Walt Disney Wonderful World of Color T.V. show. \u00a0The Wikipedia entry for the Professor says that he was named either after Ludwig von Mises, or Ludwig Beethoven. \u00a0As a mechanical engineer, and since von Drake is a scientist (among other things), I prefer to think it was<br \/>\nvon Mises!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/disneypostcards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NT0542_0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-897\" alt=\"NT0542_0001\" src=\"http:\/\/disneypostcards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NT0542_0001-300x189.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NT0542_0001-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NT0542_0001.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I recently picked up another card on eBay, a Wonderful World of Color advertising card. \u00a0Once I get that in I will be sure to post it to the site. \u00a0If you want to see a clip of von Drake in action, try\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Au1SqfxgAlk\">this one<\/a>. \u00a0 (I think maybe they were trying to sell color TVs here too!)<\/p>\n<p>On another front, I am actively working to upgrade this site, shopping for the right talent to do the right job. \u00a0I can&#8217;t wait to see these ideas executed on the site&#8230;so stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>Until next time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to repost this entry &#8211; after rereading my original post from the other day&#8230;I thought it was dumb! \u00a0So I re-wrote this post to be a little more informative. \u00a0Enjoy! The other day I got rather lucky on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/nt0542-professor-von-drake-squeaker-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disneyland","category-postcards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2G91U-eD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}