{"id":69465,"date":"2015-04-07T15:03:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T20:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=69465"},"modified":"2015-04-07T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T20:03:12","slug":"james-best-rosco-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=69465","title":{"rendered":"James Best &#8220;Rosco&#8221; dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bestjames.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-69468\" alt=\"bestjames\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bestjames.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) &#8211; The prolific character actor best known for his role as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on &#8220;The Dukes of Hazzard&#8221; has died. James Best was 88.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His wife, Dorothy Best, said Tuesday that Best died Monday night in hospice care in Hickory from complications of pneumonia.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Best starred on the television series that ran from 1979 to 1985. He was the lawman futilely chasing the Duke boys, often in the company of his droopy-faced basset hound Flash.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 During a wide-ranging career of several decades, he also acted in movies including &#8220;The Caine Mutiny&#8221; and &#8220;Rolling Thunder,&#8221; and he appeared on television shows including &#8220;Gunsmoke&#8221; and &#8220;The Andy Griffith Show.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Best was an acting teacher who helped several future Hollywood stars learn how to appear more natural on camera.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) &#8211; The prolific character actor best known for his role as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on &#8220;The Dukes of Hazzard&#8221; has died. James Best was 88. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His wife, Dorothy Best, said Tuesday that Best died Monday night in hospice care in Hickory from complications of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69465","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=69465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69471,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69465\/revisions\/69471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}