{"id":27131,"date":"2018-02-06T14:47:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/06\/john-mahoney-frasiers-cranky-dad-was-the-stove-at-the-heart-of-the-show\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T14:47:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:47:22","slug":"john-mahoney-frasiers-cranky-dad-was-the-stove-at-the-heart-of-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=27131","title":{"rendered":"John Mahoney: Frasier&#039;s &#039;cranky&#039; dad was the stove at the heart of the show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marty Crane\u2019s bluff exterior concealed a sensitivity that leaked out at unexpected moments and was made all the more affecting by the actor\u2019s extraordinarily nuanced performanceJohn Mahoney, who played Frasier\u2019s Martin Crane, dies aged 77I can\u2019t shake the image of Eddie the dog looking up at an empty, flea-bitten orange-and-green recliner chair, a metal-framed walking stick leaning against one armrest. Martin \u201cMarty\u201d Crane is gone; never again will we see the sparkle of mischief in his eye as he prepared another wind-up to gently puncture the balloon of his eldest son\u2019s pomposity. I know Frasier ended in 2004, but the finality of the actor who played my favourite character leaving the stage makes my heart heavy all the same.\u201cAsk for the fine art fraud-detection squad,\u201d he deadpans in one episode, when Frasier calls the police to report a forged painting and is met with helpless cackles on the other end of the phone. The former cop\u2019s beer-drinking, sport-loving ways were always at odds with his erudite sons and their preference for sherry. A blue-collar dad to the starched collars of Niles and Frasier, he frequently knocked the wind out of their pretentious sails with his straightforward practicality and no-nonsense approach. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2018\/feb\/06\/john-mahoney-frasiers-cranky-dad-was-the-stove-at-the-heart-of-the-show\" target=\"_blank\">John Mahoney: Frasier&#039;s &#039;cranky&#039; dad was the stove at the heart of the show<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marty Crane\u2019s bluff exterior concealed a sensitivity that leaked out at unexpected moments and was made all the more affecting by the actor\u2019s extraordinarily nuanced performanceJohn Mahoney, who played Frasier\u2019s Martin Crane, dies aged 77I can\u2019t shake the image of Eddie the dog looking up at an empty, flea-bitten orange-and-green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}