{"id":3669,"date":"2012-11-24T07:01:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T14:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/11\/capt-tony-nelson-gone\/"},"modified":"2012-11-24T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T15:44:21","slug":"capt-tony-nelson-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/24\/capt-tony-nelson-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Capt. Tony Nelson Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.time.com\/2012\/11\/24\/dallas-star-larry-hagman-dies-in-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\">from TIME Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><em>Dallas<\/em>\u00a0Star Larry Hagman Dies in Texas<\/h1>\n<p><em>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.time.com\/author\/timeassociatedpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/hagman2.jpg\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"right\" \/>(LOS ANGELES) \u2014 Larry Hagman, whose predatory\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.time.com\/oil\/\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none\">oil<\/a>\u00a0baron J.R. Ewing on television\u2019s long-running nighttime soap\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.time.com\/opera\/\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none\">opera<\/a>\u00a0\u201cDallas\u201d became a symbol for 1980s greed and coaxed forth a Texas-sized gusher of TV ratings, has died. He was 81.<\/p>\n<p>Hagman, who returned as J.R. in a new edition of \u201cDallas\u201d this year, passed away Friday afternoon due to complications from his battle with cancer, according to a statement from the family provided to The Associated Press by Warner Bros., producer of \u201cDallas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hagman was diagnosed in 1992 with cirrhosis of the liver and acknowledged that he had drank heavily for years. In 1995, a malignant tumor was discovered on his liver and he underwent a transplant.<\/p>\n<p>Years before \u201cDallas,\u201d Hagman had gained TV fame as a nice guy with the fluffy 1965-70\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.time.com\/nbc\/\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a>\u00a0comedy \u201cI Dream of Jeannie,\u201d in which he played Capt. Tony Nelson, an astronaut whose life is disrupted when he finds a comely genie, portrayed by Barbara Eden, and takes her home to live with him.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.time.com\/2012\/11\/24\/dallas-star-larry-hagman-dies-in-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at TIME.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TIME Magazine Dallas\u00a0Star Larry Hagman Dies in Texas By\u00a0Associated Press (LOS ANGELES) \u2014 Larry Hagman, whose predatory\u00a0oil\u00a0baron J.R. Ewing on television\u2019s long-running nighttime soap\u00a0opera\u00a0\u201cDallas\u201d became a symbol for 1980s greed and coaxed forth a Texas-sized gusher of TV ratings, has died. He was 81. Hagman, who returned as J.R. in a new edition of [&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-3669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669","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=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}