{"id":16987,"date":"2025-04-21T22:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T22:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/?p=16987"},"modified":"2025-04-21T22:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T22:08:19","slug":"mash-legend-has-died-aged-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/?p=16987","title":{"rendered":"M*A*S*H legend has died aged 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Patrick Adiarte, who had a recurring role on season one of the beloved sitcom M*A*S*H, died this Tuesday at the age of 82.<\/p>\n<p>Adiarte enjoyed a glittering career in musicals, including the film adaptations of the Rodgers and Hammerstein shows The King And I and Flower Drum Song.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines-born actor also appeared on classic television programs like Bonanza, The Brady Bunch and Hawaii Five-O and Kojak in the 1970s. During that decade, he landed his most enduringly popular role as the camp houseboy Ho-Jon on M*A*S*H, which he played from 1972 to 1973.<\/p>\n<p>He was also a dazzling dancer, demonstrating his talent during a TV appearance with Gene Kelly, who hailed him as a potential successor to Fred Astaire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Patrick Adiarte, who had a recurring role on season one of the beloved sitcom M*A*S*H, died this Tuesday at the age of 82. Adiarte enjoyed a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16989,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987\/revisions\/16989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}