{"id":1552,"date":"2007-08-01T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2007-08-01T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T23:11:00","slug":"hard-to-believe-jock-mahoney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1552","title":{"rendered":"Hard to Believe&#8230; Jock Mahoney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/RrEbCTbEC5I\/AAAAAAAAAoI\/hk5YaHdDzmA\/s1600-h\/z080107fun_cz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/RrEbCTbEC5I\/AAAAAAAAAoI\/hk5YaHdDzmA\/s400\/z080107fun_cz.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093882379920214930\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>Hard to believe, but that&#8217;s a photo of me that appeared in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1980<\/span> on the inside front cover of Bill Black&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Fun Comics #1<\/span>.  Although it was <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">27 years ago<\/span>, it seems like yesterday&#8230; ok, maybe not really yesterday, but definitely not 27 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">OrlandoCon 1980<\/span>.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bill Black, Jim Ivey<\/span>, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mike Kott<\/span>  were all friends of mine [still are in fact] and the main men behind <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">OrlandoCon<\/span>.  That year <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jock Mahoney<\/span> was the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">media guest of honor<\/span>.<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jock<\/span> had a long, successful career in movies and on tv.  He started out as a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">stuntman<\/span>, but soon was playing the lead as <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Range Rider<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Yancy Derringer, Tarzan <\/span>[in 3 movies], and <a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0537146\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">in so many other roles<\/span><\/a>.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jock<\/span> was also <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sally Field&#8217;s stepfather<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>Because of my connections with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bill, Jim<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mike<\/span>, I was able to appear on stage with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jock<\/span> when he did some demonstrations of how fights are filmed for movies.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jock<\/span> was a great guest.  He even posed with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bill <\/span>and his wife <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rebecca<\/span> for the<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span>fumetti below.   Hard to believe that it was done over 1\/4 century ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/span> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/RrEayzbEC4I\/AAAAAAAAAoA\/zQ_sXaMUAfI\/s400\/z080107fun_fumetti.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093882113632242562\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe, but that&#8217;s a photo of me that appeared in 1980 on the inside front cover of Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,56,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-comics","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}