{"id":14387,"date":"2016-03-17T11:25:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T16:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14387"},"modified":"2016-03-17T11:25:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T16:25:32","slug":"obit-watch-march-17-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14387","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: March 17, 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/17\/arts\/music\/frank-sinatra-jr-singer-who-followed-in-his-fathers-footsteps-dies-at-72.html?ref=todayspaper\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Sinatra Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/17\/arts\/music\/frank-sinatra-jr-singer-who-followed-in-his-fathers-footsteps-dies-at-72.html?ref=todayspaper\" target=\"_blank\">Later that year Frank Jr.\u2019s name was in headlines nationwide when he was kidnapped at gunpoint from a casino in Nevada. He was freed, unharmed, a little more than two days later, after his father paid $240,000 in ransom.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/17\/arts\/music\/frank-sinatra-jr-singer-who-followed-in-his-fathers-footsteps-dies-at-72.html?ref=todayspaper\" target=\"_blank\">Three men, Barry Worthington Keenan, Joseph Clyde Amsler and John William Irwin, were convicted of the kidnapping, despite defense lawyers\u2019 claim that it had been a publicity stunt. \u201cThe criminals invented a story that the whole thing was phony,\u201d Mr. Sinatra said in an interview with The Guardian in 2012. \u201cThat was the stigma put on me.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, Barry Keenan was involved in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/news\/local\/from-the-archive-frank-sinatra-jrs-kidnapper-led-a\/nqmzk\/\" target=\"_blank\">a project to build a casino in downtown Austin<\/a>? How did I miss that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Sinatra Jr. Later that year Frank Jr.\u2019s name was in headlines nationwide when he was kidnapped at gunpoint from a casino in Nevada. He was freed, unharmed, a little more than two days later, after his father paid $240,000 in ransom. Three men, Barry Worthington Keenan, Joseph Clyde Amsler and John William Irwin, were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,40,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-music","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14388,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387\/revisions\/14388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}