{"id":739,"date":"2025-12-31T07:54:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/isiah-whitlock-jr-actor-in-the-wire-and-veep-dies-aged-71\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T07:54:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:54:37","slug":"isiah-whitlock-jr-actor-in-the-wire-and-veep-dies-aged-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/isiah-whitlock-jr-actor-in-the-wire-and-veep-dies-aged-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Isiah Whitlock Jr, actor in The Wire and Veep, dies aged 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whitlock\u2019s career spanned decades and included roles in many Spike Lee filmsThe American actor Isiah Whitlock Jr, who played a corrupt politician on HBO crime drama The Wire and had roles in numerous Spike Lee films, died at age 71 on Tuesday, his manager said.\u201cIt is with tremendous sadness that I share the passing of my dear friend and client Isiah Whitlock Jr. If you knew him \u2013 you loved him. A brilliant actor and even better person,\u201d Brian Liebman wrote on social media. Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whitlock\u2019s career spanned decades and included roles in many Spike Lee filmsThe American actor Isiah Whitlock Jr, who played a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}