{"id":2513,"date":"2014-07-04T21:31:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T21:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:23:23","slug":"bob-hastings-lt-carpenter-of-mchales-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2513","title":{"rendered":"Bob Hastings &#8211; Lt. Carpenter of &#8220;McHale&#8217;s Navy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>89 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had a long career in acting and entertainment, but his role in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McHale%27s_Navy\" target=\"_self\">McHale&#8217;s Navy<\/a> (a show that was beloved in my house!) is what he&#8217;s best known for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unusual for Hollywood, he was married to the same woman for 66 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/04\/arts\/television\/bob-hastings-actor-on-mchales-navy-dies-at-89.html?emc=edit_th_20140704&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;nlid=5681832&amp;_r=1&amp;referrer=\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">Bob Hastings, Actor on \u2018McHale\u2019s Navy,\u2019 Dies at 89<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s his &#8220;McHale&#8217;s&#8221; picture, early 1960&#8217;s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e201a511db33ff970c-100wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11877\" title=\"Bob hastings mchale's\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201a73de68eeb970d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201a73de68eeb970d-250wi\" alt=\"Bob hastings 2008\" title=\"Bob hastings 2008\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>89 years old. He had a long career in acting and entertainment, but his role in McHale&#8217;s Navy (a show that was beloved in my house!) is what he&#8217;s best known for. Unusual for Hollywood, he was married to the same woman for 66 years. Bob Hastings, Actor on \u2018McHale\u2019s Navy,\u2019 Dies at 89 Here&#8217;s [&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-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","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=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11878,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/11878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}