{"id":86294,"date":"2015-11-02T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=86294"},"modified":"2015-11-02T08:59:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T14:59:23","slug":"fred-thompson-former-senator-actor-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=86294","title":{"rendered":"Fred Thompson former Senator &#8211; actor, passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ThompsonFred2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-86298\" alt=\"ThompsonFred2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ThompsonFred2.jpg\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Fred Thompson, a former U.S. senator for Tennessee and actor who starred on &#8220;Law &amp; Order&#8221; from 2002-2007, died Sunday of lymphoma in Nashville, his family said in a statement. He was 73<\/p>\n<p>Thompson was also a GOP presidential candidate in 2008, as well as a Watergate attorney. He played D.A. Arthur Branch on &#8220;Law &amp; Order&#8221; for five years, and also appeared on the show&#8217;s spinoffs &#8220;Special Victims Unit&#8221; and &#8220;Trial by Jury&#8221; as the character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Fred Thompson, a former U.S. senator for Tennessee and actor who starred on &#8220;Law &amp; Order&#8221; from 2002-2007, died Sunday of lymphoma in Nashville, his family said in a statement. He was 73 Thompson was also a GOP presidential candidate in 2008, as well as a Watergate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":86305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86294","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\/86294","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=86294"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86308,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86294\/revisions\/86308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}