{"id":3399,"date":"2024-07-26T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2024-09-30T08:59:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T08:59:16","slug":"happy-birthday-james-best-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/07\/happy-birthday-james-best-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus James Best!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">July 26, 1926\u00a0\u2013 April 6, 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born Jewel Franklin Guy in Powderly, Kentucky; Mr. Best was an American television, film, stage with over 180 credits on his extensive resum\u00e9 \u2013 including roles in films such as The Cimarron Kid (1952), Seven Angry Men (1955), and Shenandoah (1965). Although Mr. Best will be forevermore remembered as the aloof sheriff of Hazzard County in the 1980 classic television series \u2018The Dukes of Hazzard\u2019, it is his role as Captain Thorne Sherman in the CDF classic THE KILLER SHREWS (1959) that secures his inclusion among the honored CDF Alumni.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/James-Best_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"James Best photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/James-Best_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/James-Best_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/James-Best_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/James-Best_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/James-Best_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 26, 1926\u00a0\u2013 April 6, 2015 Born Jewel Franklin Guy in Powderly, Kentucky; Mr. Best was an American television, film, stage with over 180 credits on his extensive resum\u00e9 \u2013 including roles in films such as The Cimarron Kid (1952), Seven Angry Men (1955), and Shenandoah (1965). Although Mr. Best will be forevermore remembered as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,15,7,5,567,32,422,421,10,566],"class_list":["post-3399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-dukesofhazzard","tag-happybirthday","tag-jamesbest","tag-killershrews","tag-movie","tag-roscoepcoltrane"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/James-Best_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3400,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions\/3400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}