{"id":416353,"date":"2010-03-11T12:45:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T17:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/?p=40978"},"modified":"2010-03-11T12:45:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T17:45:29","slug":"merlin-olsen-dead-at-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/416353","title":{"rendered":"Merlin Olsen Dead at 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/merlin-olsen-dead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40980\" title=\"merlin-olsen-dead\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/merlin-olsen-dead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Merlin Olsen dead at 69<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Merlin Olsen, football Hall of Famer and television actor has died at the age of 69.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/merlin-olsen-death.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-40979\" title=\"merlin-olsen-death\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/merlin-olsen-death-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Olsen was diagnosed with mesothelioma last year. He died in a Los Angeles hospital <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirotv.com\/sports\/22809356\/detail.html?treets=sea&amp;tml=sea_natlbreak&amp;ts=T&amp;tmi=sea_natlbreak_1_10500103112010\">last night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Olsen played football for Utah State the LA Rams in 1962. But most of you might remember him from &#8220;Little House on the Prairie&#8221;. He also starred on his own television show, a sort of spin-off of &#8220;Little House&#8221; called, &#8220;Father Murphy,&#8221; in the early 80&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Utah State University plans on erecting a statue of Olsen at their stadium.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Smacks<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"related_post\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/2010\/03\/11\/corey-feldman-larry-king-video\/\" title=\"Corey Feldman Larry King [VIDEO]\">Corey Feldman Larry King [VIDEO]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/2010\/03\/10\/corey-haim-lost-boys-video\/\" title=\"Corey Haim Lost Boys [VIDEO]\">Corey Haim Lost Boys [VIDEO]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/2010\/03\/10\/corey-haim-dead-from-drug-overdose\/\" title=\"Corey Haim DEAD from Drug Overdose\">Corey Haim DEAD from Drug Overdose<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/2010\/03\/09\/andrew-kwasniewski-suicide\/\" title=\"Andrew &#8220;Randy&#8221; Kwasniewski, Hard Rock President Suicide\">Andrew &#8220;Randy&#8221; Kwasniewski, Hard Rock President Suicide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/2010\/03\/05\/marie-osmonds-son-funeral-is-monday\/\" title=\"Marie Osmond&#8217;s Son Funeral is Monday\">Marie Osmond&#8217;s Son Funeral is Monday<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"   href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.celebritysmackblog.com%2F2010%2F03%2F11%2Fmerlin-olsen-dead-at-69%2F&amp;title=Merlin%20Olsen%20Dead%20at%2069&amp;bodytext=%0D%0A%0D%0AMerlin%20Olsen%20dead%20at%2069%0D%0AMerlin%20Olsen%2C%20football%20Hall%20of%20Famer%20and%20television%20actor%20has%20died%20at%20the%20age%20of%2069.%0D%0AOlsen%20was%20diagnosed%20with%20mesothelioma%20last%20year.%20He%20died%20in%20a%20Los%20Angeles%20hospital%20last%20night.%0D%0A%0D%0AOlsen%20played%20football%20for%20Utah%20State%20\" title=\"Digg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/digg.png\" title=\"Digg\" alt=\"Digg\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"   href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.celebritysmackblog.com%2F2010%2F03%2F11%2Fmerlin-olsen-dead-at-69%2F&amp;t=Merlin%20Olsen%20Dead%20at%2069\" title=\"Facebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/facebook.png\" title=\"Facebook\" alt=\"Facebook\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"   href=\"http:\/\/cgi.fark.com\/cgi\/fark\/farkit.pl?h=Merlin%20Olsen%20Dead%20at%2069&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.celebritysmackblog.com%2F2010%2F03%2F11%2Fmerlin-olsen-dead-at-69%2F\" title=\"Fark\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/fark.png\" title=\"Fark\" alt=\"Fark\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"   href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.celebritysmackblog.com%2F2010%2F03%2F11%2Fmerlin-olsen-dead-at-69%2F&amp;title=Merlin%20Olsen%20Dead%20at%2069\" title=\"StumbleUpon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/stumbleupon.png\" title=\"StumbleUpon\" alt=\"StumbleUpon\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"   href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/2010\/03\/11\/merlin-olsen-dead-at-69\/\" title=\"TwitThis\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/\" title=\"TwitThis\" alt=\"TwitThis\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"   href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.celebritysmackblog.com%2F2010%2F03%2F11%2Fmerlin-olsen-dead-at-69%2F&amp;title=Merlin%20Olsen%20Dead%20at%2069\" title=\"Reddit\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/reddit.png\" title=\"Reddit\" alt=\"Reddit\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\"   href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Merlin%20Olsen%20Dead%20at%2069%20-%20http%3A%2F%2Fwww.celebritysmackblog.com%2F2010%2F03%2F11%2Fmerlin-olsen-dead-at-69%2F\" title=\"Twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebritysmackblog.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/twitter.png\" title=\"Twitter\" alt=\"Twitter\" class=\"sociable-hovers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merlin Olsen dead at 69 Merlin Olsen, football Hall of Famer and television actor has died at the age of 69. Olsen was diagnosed with mesothelioma last year. He died in a Los Angeles hospital last night. Olsen played football for Utah State the LA Rams in 1962. But most of you might remember him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}