{"id":4909,"date":"2013-05-22T22:08:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T22:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2013-05-22T22:08:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T22:08:02","slug":"kirby-kreatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2013\/05\/22\/kirby-kreatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirby Kreatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KIRBYS-KREATURES.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4873\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2013\/05\/22\/kirby-kreatures\/kirbys-kreatures\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KIRBYS-KREATURES.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1163,1519\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;KIRBY&#039;S KREATURES&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"KIRBY&amp;#8217;S KREATURES\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KIRBYS-KREATURES-229x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KIRBYS-KREATURES-784x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4873\" alt=\"KIRBY'S KREATURES\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KIRBYS-KREATURES.jpg\" width=\"1163\" height=\"1519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KIRBYS-KREATURES.jpg 1163w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KIRBYS-KREATURES-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KIRBYS-KREATURES-784x1024.jpg 784w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KIRBYS-KREATURES-624x815.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1163px) 100vw, 1163px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tonight on <strong>Kirby-Vision<\/strong> a special report from our regular correspondent, <a href=\"http:\/\/marcbasile.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Basile<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>It was April 1976. I turned 13 and for my landmark birthday I received, among other things, a red, white and blue Bicentennial theme transistor radio ( it only played AM stations), a copy of\u00a0<strong>Origins of Marvel Comics<\/strong>\u00a0and a few packs of <strong>KIRBY KREATURES<\/strong> sticker cards. Remember them? No neither do I because they never existed, but if they had they would have been right up there with my ( and everyone else&#8217;s ) Wacky Package collection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/GARGOLLA-CARD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4874\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2013\/05\/22\/kirby-kreatures\/dragoom-card-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/GARGOLLA-CARD.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1163,1519\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;DRAGOOM CARD&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DRAGOOM CARD\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/GARGOLLA-CARD-229x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/GARGOLLA-CARD-784x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4874\" alt=\"DRAGOOM CARD\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/GARGOLLA-CARD.jpg\" width=\"1163\" height=\"1519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/GARGOLLA-CARD.jpg 1163w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/GARGOLLA-CARD-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/GARGOLLA-CARD-784x1024.jpg 784w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/GARGOLLA-CARD-624x815.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1163px) 100vw, 1163px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/DRAGOOM-CARD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4871\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2013\/05\/22\/kirby-kreatures\/dragoom-card\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/DRAGOOM-CARD.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1163,1519\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;DRAGOOM CARD&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DRAGOOM CARD\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/DRAGOOM-CARD-229x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/DRAGOOM-CARD-784x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4871\" alt=\"DRAGOOM CARD\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/DRAGOOM-CARD.jpg\" width=\"1163\" height=\"1519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/DRAGOOM-CARD.jpg 1163w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/DRAGOOM-CARD-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/DRAGOOM-CARD-784x1024.jpg 784w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/DRAGOOM-CARD-624x815.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1163px) 100vw, 1163px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KREATURES-CHECKLIST.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4872\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2013\/05\/22\/kirby-kreatures\/dragoom-card-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KREATURES-CHECKLIST.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1519,1163\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;DRAGOOM CARD&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DRAGOOM CARD\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KREATURES-CHECKLIST-300x229.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KREATURES-CHECKLIST-1024x784.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4872\" alt=\"DRAGOOM CARD\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KREATURES-CHECKLIST.jpg\" width=\"1519\" height=\"1163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KREATURES-CHECKLIST.jpg 1519w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KREATURES-CHECKLIST-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KREATURES-CHECKLIST-1024x784.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/KREATURES-CHECKLIST-624x477.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1519px) 100vw, 1519px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight on Kirby-Vision a special report from our regular correspondent, Marc Basile: It was April 1976. I turned 13 and for my landmark birthday I received, among other things, a red, white and blue Bicentennial theme transistor radio ( it only played AM stations), a copy of\u00a0Origins of Marvel Comics\u00a0and a few packs of KIRBY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[490,489,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dragoon","category-gorgolla","category-marc-basile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4913,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/4913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}