{"id":19933,"date":"2019-02-18T00:04:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T05:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=19933"},"modified":"2019-02-18T00:20:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T05:20:35","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=19933","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The late, great George Kennedy was born back in 1925!<br>He started off as a serious actor who actually earned an<br>Oscar for his role in Cool Hand Luke, starred in the 70&#8217;s <br>disaster movie Airport and its sequels, and eventually<br>the Naked Gun flicks and television series.<br>His straight man status made him a great fit for the  <br>comedy genre, working with Leslie Nielsen revealed<br>the humor contained within.<br>This is a funny slice of The Naked Gun 21\/2: The Smell<br>of Fear movie that came out in 1991.<br>He mans the bullhorn with aplomb&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The Naked Gun 2\u00bd: The Smell of Fear (2\/10) Movie CLIP - Frank The Tank (1991) HD\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nz1NJ3fhso0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">George Kennedy 1925-2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"184\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/George-Kennedy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/George-Kennedy.jpg 184w, https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/George-Kennedy-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late, great George Kennedy was born back in 1925!He started off as a serious actor who actually earned anOscar for his role in Cool Hand Luke, starred in the 70&#8217;s disaster movie Airport and its sequels, and eventuallythe Naked Gun flicks and television series.His straight man status made him a great fit for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19945,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19933\/revisions\/19945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}