{"id":29669,"date":"2026-06-24T21:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=29669"},"modified":"2026-06-24T21:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:39:12","slug":"legendary-tv-director-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=29669","title":{"rendered":"Legendary TV Director Dies at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary TV director James Burrows has passed away at the age of 85. Known for hit shows like <em data-start=\"127\" data-end=\"136\">Friends<\/em>, <em data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"146\">Cheers<\/em>, <em data-start=\"148\" data-end=\"157\">Frasier<\/em>, and <em data-start=\"163\" data-end=\"177\">Will &amp; Grace<\/em>, he directed more than 1,000 TV episodes and helped shape modern television comedy. RIP.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u07EclThmks?si=rcj6sJBkN7cffrTc\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary TV director James Burrows has passed away at the age of 85. Known for hit shows like Friends, Cheers, Frasier, and Will &amp; Grace, he directed more than 1,000 TV episodes and helped shape modern television comedy. RIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29671,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29669\/revisions\/29671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}