{"id":10090,"date":"2019-08-17T16:25:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T23:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10090"},"modified":"2019-08-22T16:33:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T23:33:33","slug":"easy-rider-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/17\/easy-rider-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Rider Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/r-i-p-peter-fonda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from Dark Horizons (opens in a new tab)\">from Dark Horizons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">R.I.P. Peter Fonda<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/author\/garth-franklin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Garth Franklin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DtarKfwYLfo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cEasy Rider\u201d himself, Peter Fonda, has died \u2013 the famed actor passing away at 79 from lung cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fonda had an interesting childhood \u2013 a difficult and distant relationship with his famous father Henry Fonda, he accidentally shot himself in the stomach and nearly died on his 11th birthday,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made his Hollywood debut in 1963 with \u201cTammy and the Doctor\u201d co-starring Sandra Dee along with WW2 drama \u201cThe Victors\u201d the same year followed by Robert Rossen\u2019s \u201cLilith\u201d in which he received acclaim. He turned biker for Roger Corman in 1966\u2019s \u201cThe Wild Angels\u201d and a role in the Jack Nicholson-penned \u201cThe Trip\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fonda and Dennis Hopper then conceived, co-wrote with Terry Southern and raised the finance for counterculture hit \u201cEasy Rider\u201d which made over $60 million worldwide over three years from a $400,000 budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/r-i-p-peter-fonda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at Dark Horizons (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at Dark Horizons<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Dark Horizons R.I.P. Peter Fonda By&nbsp;Garth Franklin The \u201cEasy Rider\u201d himself, Peter Fonda, has died \u2013 the famed actor passing away at 79 from lung cancer. Fonda had an interesting childhood \u2013 a difficult and distant relationship with his famous father Henry Fonda, he accidentally shot himself in the stomach and nearly died on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}