{"id":8440,"date":"2009-04-26T17:27:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T07:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=8440"},"modified":"2009-04-26T17:27:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T07:57:10","slug":"vale-bea-arthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2009\/04\/26\/vale-bea-arthur\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Bea Arthur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_8441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8441\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8441\" title=\"bea\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bea.jpg\" alt=\"Bea Arthur - 1922-2009\" width=\"300\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bea.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bea-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bea Arthur - 1922-2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I always used to watch <em>The Golden Girls<\/em> growing up. They were, and probably still are, the funniest group of sexually active post-menopausal women getting about the TV. It&#8217;s sad to hear news out of Hollywood today, that Bea Arthur, one of the Golden Girls, has passed away. While Bea was never known for her film work (as far as I could ascertain, she never appeared in any films) she did have a great TV and theatre career, and it&#8217;s always sad to hear that one of your childhood memories has moved on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, today I pause, reflect a little and remember one of the great sitcom shows of the 80&#8217;s, and think about Bea Arthur, her feisty mother and fellow housemates, Betty White and Rue McClanahan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_8442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8442\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8442\" title=\"the-golden-girls\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/the-golden-girls.jpg\" alt=\"Bea Arthur (Center, rear), with fellow Golden Girls cast members, from left, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty, and Betty White\" width=\"425\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/the-golden-girls.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/the-golden-girls-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bea Arthur (Center, rear), with fellow Golden Girls cast members, from left, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty, and Betty White<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always used to watch The Golden Girls growing up. They were, and probably still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":"","sow-carousel-default":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}