{"id":70329,"date":"2016-10-23T21:34:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T03:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/27-year-old-durango-actor-dies-of-apparent-overdose\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T03:34:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T03:34:43","slug":"27-year-old-durango-actor-dies-of-apparent-overdose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/27-year-old-durango-actor-dies-of-apparent-overdose\/","title":{"rendered":"27-year-old Durango actor dies of apparent overdose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=34ee6ddf-cbe1-4866-8244-053d4631d63e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1163\" height=\"1780\" alt=\"Kuhlke\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Kuhlke<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 27-year-old Durango man died of an apparent drug overdose early Friday morning at his home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt didn\u2019t look like foul play, and he didn\u2019t have any medical conditions,\u201d La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith said about the death of Franklin Kuhlke. \u201cIt seems likely it was an overdose, but we\u2019ll know more after the autopsy on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A final ruling on cause of death probably won\u2019t be issued until toxicology results are available, which usually takes several weeks, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Kuhlke, who moved to Durango in June, lived with friends on East Third Avenue. He was active in the acting community, said Michelle Martinez, general manager of the Strater Hotel. The young actor was set to debut as Rocky in \u201cRocky Horror Picture Show\u201d on Friday at the Henry Strater Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the cast and crew have not heard yet because they were busy at work or school,\u201d she said Friday afternoon. \u201cWe\u2019ll have to tell them when they arrive for rehearsal, and it\u2019s going to be a sad night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kuhlke worked at Derailed Pour House, Martinez said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:abutler@durangoherald.com\">abutler@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franklin Kuhlke was cast in \u2018Rocky Horror Picture Show\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70329"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}