{"id":135457,"date":"2017-12-26T07:27:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T13:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=135457"},"modified":"2017-12-26T07:27:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T13:27:09","slug":"heather-menzies-urich-passes-68-sound-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=135457","title":{"rendered":"Heather Menzies-Urich, passes, 68, Sound of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-135459\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/menziesSoundof-Music-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Actress Heather Menzies-Urich, who played one of the singing von Trapp children in the 1965 hit film, &#8220;The Sound of Music,&#8221; has died. She was 68.<\/p>\n<p>Her son, actor Ryan Urich, <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/film\/news\/sound-of-music-heather-menzies-urich-dead-68-1202648607\/\">told Variety<\/a> that his mother died late Sunday in Frankford, Ontario, Canada. She had been diagnosed with brain cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Menzies-Urich played Louisa von Trapp, the third-oldest of the seven von Trapp children in the film adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Sound of Music&#8221; captured five Academy Awards, including best picture.<\/p>\n<p>Variety reports that Menzies-Urich is survived by two other children, several grandchildren and a great grandchild.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband, actor Robert Urich, died in 2002.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Actress Heather Menzies-Urich, who played one of the singing von Trapp children in the 1965 hit film, &#8220;The Sound of Music,&#8221; has died. She was 68. Her son, actor Ryan Urich, told Variety that his mother died late Sunday in Frankford, Ontario, Canada. She had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135460,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135457\/revisions\/135460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}