{"id":17521,"date":"2026-08-27T00:09:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=17521"},"modified":"2026-08-27T00:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:09:54","slug":"a-true-television-legend-has-taken-his-final-bow-and-fans-across-the-world-are-in-tears-see-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=17521","title":{"rendered":"A true television legend has taken his final bow, and fans across the world are in tears\u2026 See more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From a colorful early career as a meat porter, professional gambler, and stuntman to five decades as a beloved television icon,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>British entertainment bids farewell to the man who captured the nation\u2019s heart as *EastEnders* patriarch Charlie Slater: **Derek Martin**.READ MORE BELOW<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; From a colorful early career as a meat porter, professional gambler, and stuntman to five decades as a beloved television icon, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17523,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521\/revisions\/17523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}