{"id":544167,"date":"2026-03-18T09:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544167\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:03:11","slug":"im-proud-to-call-myself-a-disney-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544167\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Proud to Call Myself a Disney Adult"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final numbers haven\u2019t been released yet, but if online chatter is any indication, something like nine Americans tuned in Sunday night to watch the Oscars: three hours and 45 minutes of actors accepting awards for films no one bothered seeing, and delivering political rants no one wanted to hear.<\/p>\n

By the same delightfully imperfect yet deeply resonant metric, approximately 40 billion Americans have watched the new online ad<\/a> for Disney\u2019s cruise line. It\u2019s an exaggeration, but not much of one: You couldn\u2019t really tune in to a podcast this week without hearing some long and impassioned analysis of the ad and its larger cultural meaning.<\/p>\n

In case you\u2019re one of the very few carbon-based life forms who hasn\u2019t yet had the pleasure, here\u2019s a brief summary of this one minute, 29-second masterpiece: A young family struggles to fall asleep in their snug room on a Disney cruise ship. The father takes his baby boy and goes out for a stroll on the deck. The ship is empty. The moonlight washes everything in a pale, otherworldly glow. In the background, sweet music, a cross between Debussy\u2019s \u201cClair de Lune\u201d and \u201cBe Our Guest\u201d from Beauty and the Beast, makes the heart grow softer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final numbers haven\u2019t been released yet, but if online chatter is any indication, something like nine Americans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-544167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}