{"id":5503,"date":"2011-06-05T23:32:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T03:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2011-06-07T18:43:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T22:43:17","slug":"rip-james-arness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5503","title":{"rendered":"RIP &#8211; James Arness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2011\/z060511james_arness.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"589\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was sad to hear that<strong> James Arness<\/strong> died on <strong>Friday, June 5, 2011<\/strong>, at the age of <strong>88<\/strong> of natural causes.\u00a0 Most fans know <strong>Mr. Arness <\/strong>as <strong>Marshall Matt Dillon<\/strong> from the long-running tv series <em><strong>Gunsmoke<\/strong><\/em> which aired from <strong>1955 <\/strong>to <strong>1975<\/strong> and then returned in the form of five made-for-television movies.\u00a0 If <strong>Matt Dillon<\/strong> was the only role that<strong> James Arness<\/strong> was known for, it&#8217;d still be enough reason to post about his passing.\u00a0 I spent many hours watching<em><strong> Gunsmoke<\/strong><\/em> with my grandfather and those are memories I&#8217;ll always treasure. \u00a0 [It was my grandfather who informed me that<strong> James Arness<\/strong> and <strong>Peter Graves<\/strong> [<em><strong>Mission Impossible<\/strong><\/em>] were brothers.\u00a0 LOL.\u00a0 The things that we remember.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>James Arness<\/strong> was also an important part of my childhood because he played roles in two of my favorite monster movies.\u00a0<strong> Mr. Arness<\/strong> was the thing in the classic <em><strong>The Thing from Another Planet<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 He also played the romantic lead in another sci-fi classic, <em><strong>Them!<\/strong><\/em> You can also find <strong>James Arness<\/strong> in the<strong> John Wayne<\/strong> classic, <em><strong>Hondo<\/strong><\/em>!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One of my favorite<strong> James Arness<\/strong>&#8216; roles was as the mountain man <strong>Zeb McCahan<\/strong> [a role that he played in a made-for-tv movie and two mini-series].<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My thoughts and prayers go out to the family, friends and fans of <strong>James Arness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sad to hear that James Arness died on Friday, June 5, 2011, at the age of 88 of<\/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":[17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","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=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5507,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions\/5507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}