{"id":977,"date":"2004-12-20T09:28:27","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T17:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/12\/the_haunted_hotel\/"},"modified":"2004-12-20T09:28:27","modified_gmt":"2004-12-20T17:28:27","slug":"the_haunted_hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/12\/the_haunted_hotel.html","title":{"rendered":"THE HAUNTED HOTEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess who&#8217;s joined the conservationists fighting to preserve the <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodusa.co.uk\/ambassador-hotel.htm\" target='new\"'><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Ambassador Hotel<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> in Los Angeles, where Robert Kennedy<br \/>\nwas gunned down. <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org\/magazine\/archives\/arc_news\/120604.htm\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>According to Preservation<br \/>\nOnline<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, it&#8217;s none other than Sirhan Shirhan. In a lawsuit to keep<br \/>\nthe&nbsp;structure from being demolished to make way for a school, he claims that evidence<br \/>\nlodged in the hotel walls shows Kennedy was killed by bullets from more than one gun. Sirhan<br \/>\nSirhan, you may recall, is serving a life sentence for shooting Kennedy to death in the hotel&#8217;s<br \/>\npantry in 1968. Before the assassination, the Ambassador was most famous for its nightclub, the<br \/>\nCocoanut Grove, which became an iconic&nbsp;celebrity hangout where the Academy Awards<br \/>\nwere held during Hollywood&#8217;s so-called Golden Age of the &#8217;30s and &#8217;40s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess who&#8217;s joined the conservationists fighting to preserve the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where Robert Kennedy was gunned down. According to Preservation Online, it&#8217;s none other than Sirhan Shirhan. In a lawsuit to keep the&nbsp;structure from being demolished to make way for a school, he claims that evidence lodged in the hotel walls shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-fL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}