{"id":3121,"date":"2011-06-04T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:26:51","slug":"james-arness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3121","title":{"rendered":"James Arness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ahhh, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gunsmoke\" target=\"_self\">Gunsmoke<\/a><\/strong> and Marshall Matt Dillon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2015432bfe5f5970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201538eeca57c970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matt dillon\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201538eeca57c970b\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201538eeca57c970b-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px;\" title=\"Matt dillon\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>The show my parents would sit together on the couch to watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It ran from 1955 to 1975. (It was replaced by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mary_Tyler_Moore_Show\" title=\"The Mary Tyler Moore Show\">Mary Tyler Moore<\/a><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spin-off_(media)\" title=\"Spin-off (media)\">spin-offs<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhoda\" title=\"Rhoda\">Rhoda<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phyllis_(TV_series)\" title=\"Phyllis (TV series)\">Phyllis<\/a>!)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popeater.com\/2011\/06\/03\/james-arness-dies-gunsmoke-matt-dillon\/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C215034\" target=\"_self\">James Arness, Iconic &#8216;Gunsmoke&#8217; Lawman, Dead at 88<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first episode, and a very young Matt Dillon, with Chester, Miss Kitty, and Doc, in glorious black and white.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6zeK9LVxjvw\" width=\"425\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhh, Gunsmoke and Marshall Matt Dillon. &nbsp;&nbsp;The show my parents would sit together on the couch to watch. It ran from 1955 to 1975. (It was replaced by Mary Tyler Moore spin-offs Rhoda and Phyllis!) James Arness, Iconic &#8216;Gunsmoke&#8217; Lawman, Dead at 88 The first episode, and a very young Matt Dillon, with Chester, Miss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121","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=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12109,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions\/12109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}