{"id":1200,"date":"2020-04-08T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:09:54","slug":"james-drury-the-virginian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1200","title":{"rendered":"James Drury, &#8220;The Virginian&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a51e4ecc200b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a51e4ecc200b-115wi\" alt=\"James drury\" title=\"James drury\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gone at 85 years old. I confess that Brigid and I sometimes watch <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Virginian_(TV_series)\">The Virginian<\/a> when it&#8217;s up on one of the cable channels. The show had a nine year, 249 episode run. It really only takes the show name from the book. The novel is very different, with Trampas (The Virginian&#8217;s pal in the TV series) actually the very bad guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/06\/arts\/television\/james-drury-dies.html\">James Drury, Taciturn Star of \u2018The Virginian,\u2019 Dies at 85 A product of New York City and an Oregon ranch, he played the title character, a ranch foreman who is never named, for its entire nine-season run.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gone at 85 years old. I confess that Brigid and I sometimes watch The Virginian when it&#8217;s up on one of the cable channels. The show had a nine year, 249 episode run. It really only takes the show name from the book. The novel is very different, with Trampas (The Virginian&#8217;s pal in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12895,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/12895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}