{"id":18664,"date":"2016-08-25T02:05:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T02:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=18664"},"modified":"2016-08-25T02:05:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T02:05:39","slug":"beshars-rugs-antiques-robert-p-beshar-obituary-nytimes-bronx-ny-j-oshaughnessy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2016\/08\/25\/beshars-rugs-antiques-robert-p-beshar-obituary-nytimes-bronx-ny-j-oshaughnessy\/","title":{"rendered":"Beshar&#8217;s Rugs &#038; Antiques &#8211; Robert P. Beshar Obituary &#8211; NYTimes &#8211; Bronx, NY &#8211; J. O&#8217;Shaughnessy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/guests\/jaqui-oshaughnessy-beshars-bronx.jpg?resize=580%2C435\" alt=\"\u00a9 J. O'Shaughnessy\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 J. O&#8217;Shaughnessy<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Robert Peter Beshar, 86, died peacefully at home in Somers, New York on April 16, 2014&#8230;In 1993, Bob became President of his family&#8217;s rug and antiques business, Beshar&#8217;s, in New York City. Bob&#8217;s interests were varied and intense. A love of decorative arts &#8212; bronzes, china, jewelry, clocks. He liked to say: &#8220;the hand shapes the mind.&#8221; Reading novels late into the night &#8212; convinced there was more truth in fiction than in non-fiction. 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