{"id":5868,"date":"2012-07-05T12:51:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T12:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2012-07-05T12:51:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T12:51:23","slug":"america-saddened-by-recent-loss-of-another-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/05\/america-saddened-by-recent-loss-of-another-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"America Saddened By The Recent Loss Of Icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5870\" title=\"andygriffithshowS\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/andygriffithshows1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/andygriffithshows1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/andygriffithshows1-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>America\u2019s sheriff Andy Griffith dead at 86<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p>Actor Andy Griffith, who won the hearts of 1960s TV viewers with his role as gentle Sheriff Andy Taylor in \u201cThe Andy Griffith Show,\u201d then returned as a 1980s country lawyer in \u201cMatlock,\u201d died Tuesday at 86,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.witn.com\/home\/headlines\/SHERIFF__EMS_Called_To_Andy_Griffiths_Home_161201175.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to WITN-TV<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5872\" title=\"andygriffith01\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/andygriffith01.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/andygriffith01.jpg 600w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/andygriffith01-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The news was\u00a0reported to the North Carolina television\u00a0station by Bill Friday, former president of the University of North Carolina and a Griffith friend.\u00a0Griffith began his entertainment career with comic monologues and moved into movies, debuting in 1957\u2019s \u201cA Face in the Crowd\u201d with Patricia Neal. But it was as the widower sheriff Andy Taylor on \u201cThe Andy Griffith Show\u201d that he really made his mark. The show, which also starred a young Ron Howard as Griffith\u2019s son Opie, and comedian Don Knotts as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife, ran from 1960-1968. Its setting, in the fictional small-town of Mayberry, became almost as famous as any one episode.\u00a0Griffith returned to TV stardom in 1986 as Ben Matlock, a Southern lawyer. That show ran until 1995 and was seized upon by comedians as a punchline for its popularity with older Americans. In one \u201cSimpsons\u201d episode, a highway is renamed the Matlock Expressway so a town mayor can win the elderly vote. Griffith is survived by wife Cindi and his daughter Dixie. Son Andrew Jr., known as Sam, died in 1996.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Article b<em>y<\/em><strong><em> Gael Fashingbauer Cooper <\/em><\/strong>and sent in by <em><strong>Marty Martel<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s sheriff Andy Griffith dead at 86 Actor Andy Griffith, who won the hearts of 1960s TV viewers with his role as gentle Sheriff Andy Taylor in \u201cThe Andy Griffith Show,\u201d then returned as a 1980s country lawyer in \u201cMatlock,\u201d died Tuesday at 86,according to WITN-TV.The news was\u00a0reported to the North Carolina television\u00a0station by Bill Friday, former president of the University of North Carolina and a Griffith friend.\u00a0Griffith began his entertainment career with comic monologues and moved into movies, debuting in 1957\u2019s \u201cA Face in the Crowd\u201d with Patricia Neal.<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/05\/america-saddened-by-recent-loss-of-another-icon\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}