{"id":28906,"date":"2022-01-30T18:26:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T23:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28906"},"modified":"2022-01-30T18:26:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T23:26:27","slug":"rip-howard-hesseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28906","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Howard Hesseman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z013022rip_howard_hesseman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Howard Hesseman, actor and comedian, has died at the age of 81 of complications from colon surgery.\u00a0 Best known for his starring roles on <em>WKRP in Cincinnati<\/em> and in <em>Head of the Class<\/em>, Mr. Hesseman has over 150 credits on his acting resume.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Howard Hesseman alternated between roles on television and feature films.\u00a0 In addition to the tv shows mentioned, some of Mr. Hesseman&#8217;s major television appearances included roles on <em>The Andy Griffith Show, Sanford and Son, The Bob Newhart Show, Soap, One Day at a Time, The New WKRP in Cincinnati, That &#8217;70s Show, Boston Legal<\/em> and<em> Fresh Off the Boat<\/em>.\u00a0 Some feature film appearances include: <em>Billy Jack, The Sunshine Boys, Silent Movie, The Jerk<\/em>, and <em>Heat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Surprisingly, I never watched <em>WKRP in Cincinnati<\/em> or <em>Head of the Class<\/em>.\u00a0 I still enjoyed seeing Howard Hesseman whenever he appeared in a tv show or movie.\u00a0 I first saw (and remembered him from) Billy Jack.\u00a0 Mr. Hesseman always made whatever show or movie he was in funnier.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers go out to Howard Hesseman&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Hesseman, actor and comedian, has died at the age of 81 of complications from colon surgery.\u00a0 Best known for<\/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":[17,63,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28906","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=28906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28907,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28906\/revisions\/28907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}