{"id":18312,"date":"2017-07-07T05:18:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T09:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=18312"},"modified":"2017-07-04T10:32:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T14:32:56","slug":"11-things-you-might-not-realize-andy-griffith-did-beyond-the-andy-griffith-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=18312","title":{"rendered":"11 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT REALIZE ANDY GRIFFITH DID BEYOND &#8216;THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW&#8217;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2017\/z070717andygriffith_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeTV\">MeTV<\/a>&nbsp; presents&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/metv.com\/lists\/11-things-you-might-not-realize-andy-griffith-did-beyond-the-andy-griffith-show\">11 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT REALIZE ANDY GRIFFITH DID BEYOND &#8216;THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW&#8217;!<\/a>&nbsp; Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>HE TAUGHT HIGH SCHOOL.<br \/>\n<\/strong>After graduating from the University of North Carolina, Griffith hopped from Chapel Hill to Goldsboro, North Carolina, where he taught drama at Goldsboro High School for a few years. Go Mighty Cougars!<\/p>\n<p><strong>HE PLAYED SHERIFF ANDY TAYLOR ON FOUR DIFFERENT TV SERIES.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Okay, we are going to spend a little time talking about Andy Taylor. The Sheriff pulled off the rare feat of appearing on four different shows \u2014 The Danny Thomas Show, The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D. and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HE WAS NOMINATED FOR TWO TONY AWARDS FOR HIS WORK ON BROADWAY.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Griffith took to Broadway in 1955, starring in Ira Levin&#8217;s comedic drama No Time for Sergeants. Roddy McDowell, seen here hanging from his leg, played Griffith&#8217;s buddy. The Tony Awards honored Griffith with a nomination for Distinguished Supporting or Featured Dramatic Actor at the 1956 ceremony. He lost to Ed Begley. Four years later, he earned a nomination for Distinguished Musical Actor for his lead role in Destry Rides Again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MeTV&nbsp; presents&nbsp;11 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT REALIZE ANDY GRIFFITH DID BEYOND &#8216;THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW&#8217;!&nbsp; Here are three of my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[17,63,54,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312","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=18312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18314,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312\/revisions\/18314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}