{"id":175522,"date":"2025-08-21T11:18:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=175522"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:05:26","slug":"worlds-kindest-judge-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/175522\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018World\u2019s kindest judge\u2019 dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Frank Caprio, the American judge renowned for his heartfelt courtroom speeches, has died at the age of 88, according to a post on his official Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement stated that he passed away from pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;His legacy continues to live on through the countless acts of kindness inspired by him. In his honor, we will try to bring a little more compassion into the world, just as he did every day,&rdquo; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Caprio served for 38 years at the Providence Municipal Court in Rhode Island. In December 2023, he recorded a touching video message in which he spoke about his diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>He became widely known through the reality show &ldquo;Caught in Providence&rdquo;, with clips from the show widely shared on social media. Overall, he had 1.6 million followers across various platforms, including TikTok.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Caprio, the American judge renowned for his heartfelt courtroom speeches, has died at the age of 88, according to a post on his official Facebook page. The announcement stated that he passed away from pancreatic cancer. &ldquo;His legacy continues to live on through the countless acts of kindness inspired by him. In his honor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":175409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en","category-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175523,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175522\/revisions\/175523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}