{"id":10133,"date":"2019-08-31T14:16:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T21:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10133"},"modified":"2019-09-29T14:26:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T21:26:31","slug":"franco-columbu-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/31\/franco-columbu-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Franco Columbu Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/31\/entertainment\/franco-columbu-arnold-schwarzenegger-friend-dies-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from CNN (opens in a new tab)\">from CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Franco Columbu, Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s &#8216;best friend,&#8217; dies at 78<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/lauren-m-johnson-profile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Lauren M. Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/190830172403-franco-columbu-arnold-schwarzenegger-restricted-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"Arnold Schwarzenegger stands next to Franco Columbu, hanging upside down, in this image from 1977.\"\/><figcaption>Arnold Schwarzenegger stands next to Franco Columbu, hanging upside down, in this image from 1977.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Arnold Schwarzenegger is mourning the loss of the man he called his best friend &#8212; Italian bodybuilder Franco Columbu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 78-year-old Columbu was the best man at the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/06\/us\/arnold-schwarzenegger-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">wedding<\/a>\u00a0of Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver in 1986. He was also an actor.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the minute we met in Munich, you were my partner in crime. We pushed each other, we competed with each other, and we laughed at every moment along the way,&#8221;\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@Schwarzenegger\/my-best-friend-6c3fca83e5b3\" target=\"_blank\">Schwarzenegger wrote\u00a0<\/a>in his tribute Friday. &#8220;I am devastated today. But I am also so, so grateful for the 54 years of friendship and joy we shared.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/31\/entertainment\/franco-columbu-arnold-schwarzenegger-friend-dies-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at CNN (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at CNN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN Franco Columbu, Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s &#8216;best friend,&#8217; dies at 78 By\u00a0Lauren M. Johnson Arnold Schwarzenegger is mourning the loss of the man he called his best friend &#8212; Italian bodybuilder Franco Columbu. The 78-year-old Columbu was the best man at the\u00a0wedding\u00a0of Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver in 1986. He was also an actor.&#8221; From the [&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-10133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133","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=10133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}