{"id":354068,"date":"2026-08-09T18:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T23:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/ben-jones-who-played-cooter-on-dukes-of-hazzard-dead-at-84"},"modified":"2026-08-09T18:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T23:26:14","slug":"ben-jones-who-played-cooter-on-dukes-of-hazzard-dead-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/ben-jones-who-played-cooter-on-dukes-of-hazzard-dead-at-84","title":{"rendered":"Ben Jones, Who Performed Cooter on &#039;Dukes of Hazzard,&#039; Useless at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Jones &#8212; the actor-turned-politician best known for his role in the show &#8220;The Dukes of Hazzard&#8221; &#8212; has died &#8230; according to his wife. Alma Viator &#8212; to whom Jones was married from 1992 until his passing &#8212; shared the tragic news Sunday &#8230;&hellip;<br \/>\n<br \/> <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/08\/09\/ben-jones-dead\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Jones &#8212; the actor-turned-politician best known for his role in the show &#8220;The Dukes of Hazzard&#8221; &#8212; has died &#8230; according to his wife. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30506,30509,30508,30510,30511,30507,2827,2824,2832],"class_list":["post-354068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-actor-turned-politician","tag-alma-viator","tag-ben-jones","tag-cooter","tag-cooters-place","tag-dukes","tag-dukes-of-hazzard","tag-the-dukes-of-hazzard","tag-the-dukes-of-hazzard-hazzard-in-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354070,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354068\/revisions\/354070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}