{"id":2206,"date":"2023-09-16T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2023-09-24T08:44:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T08:44:53","slug":"happy-birthday-to-inventor-and-philanthropist-marvin-middlemark-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/09\/happy-birthday-to-inventor-and-philanthropist-marvin-middlemark-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to inventor and philanthropist Marvin Middlemark!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">September 16, 1919 \u2013 September 14, 1989<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Inventor of the RABBIT EARS television antennae<span class=\"s1\"> (dipole antenna) <\/span>in 1953.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mr. Middlemark\u2019s revolutionary invention made it possible for all television viewers to experience a clearer picture as we sat back to enjoy Saturday afternoons watching Creature Double Feature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-350\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Marvin-Middlemark_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"RABBIT EARS television antennae (dipole antenna)\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Marvin-Middlemark_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Marvin-Middlemark_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Marvin-Middlemark_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Marvin-Middlemark_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Marvin-Middlemark_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 16, 1919 \u2013 September 14, 1989 Inventor of the RABBIT EARS television antennae (dipole antenna) in 1953. Mr. Middlemark\u2019s revolutionary invention made it possible for all television viewers to experience a clearer picture as we sat back to enjoy Saturday afternoons watching Creature Double Feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,7,5,6,104,101,102,105,106],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-antenna","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-inventor","tag-marvinmiddlemark","tag-rabbitears","tag-television","tag-tv"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Marvin-Middlemark_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}