{"id":756004,"date":"2026-07-11T04:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/756004\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T04:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:29:08","slug":"remembering-disney-legend-don-iwerks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/756004\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Disney Legend Don Iwerks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a 35-year career at Disney, Don formed his own company, Iwerks Entertainment, Inc., in 1986. The maker of giant-screen theaters and 3D-projection-based theme park attractions was acquired by SimEx, Inc. in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Don credited both Walt Disney and his father, Ub, for the success he enjoyed throughout his career. From them, he learned that keeping a keen eye on detail and quality is the key to success. \u201cThere was a \u2018can-do\u2019 attitude I learned from Walt and my father,\u201d he once said. \u201cIf you\u2019re doing a really first-class job, you don\u2019t need to worry about the money. It will come. Walt gave everyone a feeling that they were creating things that others had never thought of before, of being a part of history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a 35-year career at Disney, Don formed his own company, Iwerks Entertainment, Inc., in 1986. The maker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-756004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}