{"id":549,"date":"2011-04-09T12:31:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T16:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2011-04-09T12:31:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T16:31:31","slug":"the-greatest-mickey-mouse-story-ever-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/09\/the-greatest-mickey-mouse-story-ever-told\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Mickey Mouse Story Ever Told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIFE&#8217;s issue for March 22nd, 1948 featured <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=MkEEAAAAMBAJ&amp;lpg=PA113&amp;dq=roy%20%22mickey%20mouse%22&amp;pg=PA113#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">a story on Hunter College&#8217;s experimental elementary school<\/a>, where all the students had genius-level IQs. It&#8217;s a fascinating piece&#8211;and I bring it up here because one of the pint-sized savants was Roy, beloved by his classmates for his storytelling. A LIFE photographer captured Roy spinning a tale about Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Minnie Mouse that involves violence, polygamy, Danny Kaye, and&#8211;well, Roy, take it away:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-550\" title=\"geniusschool\" src=\"http:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/geniusschool.jpg\" alt=\"geniusschool\" width=\"560\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/geniusschool.jpg 560w, https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/geniusschool-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 85vw, 560px\" \/>Is it too late for Disney to acquire the rights to this and make it into a feature?<\/p>\n<p>Roy&#8217;s gifts as a performer didn&#8217;t go to waste when he grew up: he was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roy_London\">Roy London<\/a>, and he became an actor, director, and noted acting coach. I&#8217;m sorry to say he died in 1993. And now you know&#8230;the rest of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIFE&#8217;s issue for March 22nd, 1948 featured a story on Hunter College&#8217;s experimental elementary school, where all the students had genius-level IQs. It&#8217;s a fascinating piece&#8211;and I bring it up here because one of the pint-sized savants was Roy, beloved by his classmates for his storytelling. A LIFE photographer captured Roy spinning a tale about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/09\/the-greatest-mickey-mouse-story-ever-told\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Greatest Mickey Mouse Story Ever Told&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}