{"id":3277,"date":"2012-01-27T11:22:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/01\/juan-luis-pedro-philippo-dehuevos-epstein-gone\/"},"modified":"2012-01-27T12:04:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T19:04:31","slug":"juan-luis-pedro-philippo-dehuevos-epstein-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/27\/juan-luis-pedro-philippo-dehuevos-epstein-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Luis Pedro Philippo DeHuevos Epstein Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/entertainment\/ci_19830453\" target=\"_blank\">from Associated Press via Pioneer Press<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Robert Hegyes, who played Epstein on &#8216;Welcome Back Kotter,&#8217; dies<\/h1>\n<p><em>Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/extras.mnginteractive.com\/live\/media\/site569\/2012\/0126\/20120126__120127Robert%20Hegyes_300.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"225\" width=\"210\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px\" border=\"0\" \/>METUCHEN, N.J. &#8211; Robert Hegyes, the actor best known for playing Jewish Puerto Rican student Juan Epstein on the 1970s TV show &#8220;Welcome Back Kotter&#8221; has died. He was 60.<\/p>\n<p>The Flynn &amp; Son Funeral Home in Fords, N.J., said it was informed of Hegyes&#8217; death Thursday by the actor&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman at JFK Medical Center in Edison, N.J., told the Star-Ledger newspaper that Hegyes, of Metuchen, arrived at the hospital Thursday morning in full cardiac arrest and died.<\/p>\n<p>Hegyes was appearing on Broadway in 1975 when he auditioned for &#8220;Kotter,&#8221; a TV series about a teacher who returns to the inner-city New York school of his youth to teach a group of irreverent remedial students nicknamed the &#8220;Sweathogs.&#8221; They included the character Vinnie Barbarino, played by John Travolta.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/entertainment\/ci_19830453\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at TwinCities.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Associated Press via Pioneer Press Robert Hegyes, who played Epstein on &#8216;Welcome Back Kotter,&#8217; dies Associated Press METUCHEN, N.J. &#8211; Robert Hegyes, the actor best known for playing Jewish Puerto Rican student Juan Epstein on the 1970s TV show &#8220;Welcome Back Kotter&#8221; has died. He was 60. The Flynn &amp; Son Funeral Home in [&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-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","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=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}