{"id":38990,"date":"2018-02-06T23:57:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T04:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=38990"},"modified":"2018-02-07T02:03:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T07:03:31","slug":"rip-john-mahoney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/rip-john-mahoney\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP, John Mahoney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so saddened by the news of actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/06\/obituaries\/john-mahoney-actor-best-known-for-frasier-is-dead-at-77.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Mahoney&#8217;s death this Sunday<\/a>!\u00a0Mahoney co-starred in <em>Frasier <\/em>during the sitcom&#8217;s entire 1993 to 2004 run. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V-PdwhQKaGU\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marty Crane<\/a> was the down-to-earth, dog-loving father of fastidious, social-climbing sons Frasier (<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/what-wendy-wore-weinstein-and-vanity-fair-oscar-parties\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelsey Grammmer<\/a>) and Niles (David Hyde Pierce) &#8212; an ex-cop who was a source of conflict from the moment his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/tv-radio\/2017\/08\/martin-crane-s-hideous-chair-was-true-star-frasier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eyesore of an easy chair<\/a> was moved into Frasier&#8217;s pristine apartment in Episode 1.<\/p>\n<p><center><a id='6T0QFHRXQDVPASAGtQFgbA' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1309910' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'6T0QFHRXQDVPASAGtQFgbA',sig:'ehBUI0chR0H3LEgBQzFMp9-O-mC9O0xLiDaBK3MYRUI=',w:'594px',h:'395px',items:'1309910',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had many nights of insomnia during which I&#8217;ve finally given up on sleep, turned on the TV, and watched four episodes of <em>Frasier<\/em> in a row (Oh, those elusive first and last episodes! I get so excited when they&#8217;re on.) Last night, I confessed to MrB that I felt very emotional about Mahoney, saying, &#8220;He feels like family.&#8221; MrB said, &#8220;No wonder, you&#8217;ve spent more time with him.&#8221; Ooh! <a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/pQmWjYrz39YAg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burned by MrB<\/a>! All I will concede is that over the past 10 years, when I&#8217;ve been awake between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., the Cranes have been frequent and excellent company, making me quietly laugh out loud many times. It wouldn&#8217;t have been the same without Marty, and <a href=\"http:\/\/people.com\/celebrity\/frasiers-best-friend-eddie-dies\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his little dog too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frasier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"784\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frasier.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frasier-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/frasier-300x472.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, John Mahoney!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so saddened by the news of actor John Mahoney&#8217;s death this Sunday!\u00a0Mahoney co-starred in Frasier during the sitcom&#8217;s entire 1993 to 2004 run. His Marty Crane was the down-to-earth, dog-loving father of fastidious, social-climbing sons Frasier (Kelsey Grammmer) and Niles (David Hyde Pierce) &#8212; an ex-cop who was a source of conflict from the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/rip-john-mahoney\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38995,"comment_status":"open","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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,47],"tags":[1495],"class_list":{"0":"post-38990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-in-the-news","8":"category-obits","9":"tag-frasier","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38990"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39003,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38990\/revisions\/39003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}