{"id":192058,"date":"2020-02-18T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T17:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=192058"},"modified":"2020-02-19T08:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T14:02:19","slug":"t-vs-mash-nurse-kellye-passes-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=192058","title":{"rendered":"T.V&#8217;s  M*A*S*H, &#8220;Nurse Kellye,&#8221; passes, 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NakaharaKellye.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-192092\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NakaharaKellye-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NakaharaKellye-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NakaharaKellye-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NakaharaKellye.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(Tribune News Service) Kellye Nakahara, who played Nurse Kellye on the iconic sitcom \u201cM*A*S*H*,\u201d has died after a \u201cshort battle\u201d with cancer.\u00a0 She was 72.<\/p>\n<p>The artist and actress died at home on Sunday, her family announced Monday, according to TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>She started out as a non-speaking extra \u2013 Nurse #1 \u2013 on the television show, her first gig after her husband encouraged the artist to try her hand at acting.<\/p>\n<p>She eventually charmed her way into a larger role, she told The Hollywood Reporter, reminiscing about director and series co-creator Gene Reynolds (who died of heart failure earlier this month at age 96) and star Alan Alda.<\/p>\n<p>Nakahara ended up carving out a role for 167 episodes, just 10 fewer than Radar (Gary Burghoff), according to <a href=\"http:\/\/Heavy.com\">Heavy.com<\/a>, and appearing in all 10 seasons of the iconic television hit, which ran from 1972 to 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Tribune News Service) Kellye Nakahara, who played Nurse Kellye on the iconic sitcom \u201cM*A*S*H*,\u201d has died after a \u201cshort battle\u201d with cancer.\u00a0 She was 72. The artist and actress died at home on Sunday, her family announced Monday, according to TMZ. She started out as a non-speaking extra \u2013 Nurse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":192090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csicelebrations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192058"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192093,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192058\/revisions\/192093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/192090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}