{"id":14316,"date":"2012-07-03T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=14316"},"modified":"2012-07-03T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T18:55:10","slug":"andy-griffith-dead-the-world-loses-its-most-musical-television-lawman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/andy-griffith-dead-the-world-loses-its-most-musical-television-lawman\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Griffith Dead: The World Loses Its Most Musical Television Lawman"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VIDocQs1gnY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Has there ever been a more musical television law enforcement agent than Sheriff Andy Taylor, the character\u00a0<strong>Andy Griffith<\/strong>, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/entertainment\/20120703_Reports__Andy_Griffith_has_died.html\" target=\"_blank\">died today at 86<\/a>, played on the television series that bore his own name? This may not be the best Griffith performance on the show (there are many to be found), but in honor of his death I thought I should feature him singing lead.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Taylor might have helped the cast of <em>Cop Rock<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5IhWBW7uC6Y?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has there ever been a more musical television law enforcement agent than Sheriff Andy Taylor, the character\u00a0Andy Griffith, who died today at 86, played on the television series that bore his own name? This may not be the best Griffith performance on the show (there are many to be found), but in honor of his <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/andy-griffith-dead-the-world-loses-its-most-musical-television-lawman\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}