{"id":111497,"date":"2016-11-26T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T02:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=111497"},"modified":"2016-11-28T08:15:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T14:15:37","slug":"actor-ron-glass-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=111497","title":{"rendered":"Actor Ron Glass passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-111498\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/glassron2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"glassron2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/glassron2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/glassron2-131x175.jpg 131w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/glassron2.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Ron Glass, a prolific character actor best known for his role as Detective Ron Harris, the handsome, good-natured cop in the long-running comedy series &#8220;Barney Miller,&#8221; has died. He was 71.<\/p>\n<p>His agent, Jeffrey Leavett, tells The Associated Press Glass died Friday of respiratory failure.<\/p>\n<p>Although best known for &#8220;Barney Miller,&#8221; Glass also appeared in dozens of other shows in a television, film and stage career dating to the early 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>He was the spiritual shepherd Derrial Book in the cult science-fiction series &#8220;Firefly&#8221; and its film sequel &#8220;Serenity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also portrayed Felix Unger opposite Desmond Wilson&#8217;s Oscar Madison in &#8220;The New Odd Couple,&#8221; a 1980s reboot of the original film and television series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Ron Glass, a prolific character actor best known for his role as Detective Ron Harris, the handsome, good-natured cop in the long-running comedy series &#8220;Barney Miller,&#8221; has died. He was 71. His agent, Jeffrey Leavett, tells The Associated Press Glass died Friday of respiratory failure. Although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111501,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111497\/revisions\/111501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}