{"id":24009,"date":"2026-03-22T05:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24009"},"modified":"2026-03-21T08:51:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:51:34","slug":"another-one-bites-the-dust-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/another-one-bites-the-dust-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Another One Bites The Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/buffy_season5_cast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-522\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/buffy_season5_cast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/buffy_season5_cast.jpg 640w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/buffy_season5_cast-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Little more than a year after the death of former co-star Michelle Trachtenberg, <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em> star Nicholas Brendon died Friday at his San Francisco home at the age of 54.\u00a0 Brendon, who had suffered public struggles with alcohol and drug abuse and mental illness, revealed in 2023 that he had suffered a heart attack and had been diagnosed with a congenital heart defect.\u00a0 His death is believed to have been due to natural causes.<\/p>\n<p>Brendon made his first mark in the entertainment industry as Xander Harris on <em>Buffy<\/em>, starring for the show&#8217;s seven season run between the WB and the CW.\u00a0 He failed to find long term success following the show&#8217;s end, starring in the adaptation of Anthony Bourdain&#8217;s memoir <em>Kitchen Confidential<\/em>, which lasted four episodes, and scoring notable guest appearances on <em>Criminal Minds<\/em> and <em>Private Practice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a rough week for <em>Buffy<\/em> fans, with Brendon&#8217;s death coming on the heels of the news that Hulu was passing on the pilot for the planned sequel series from director Chloe Zhao and original star Sarah Michelle Gellar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little more than a year after the death of former co-star Michelle Trachtenberg, Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Nicholas Brendon died Friday at his San Francisco home at the age of 54.\u00a0 Brendon, who had suffered public struggles with alcohol and drug abuse and mental illness, revealed in 2023 that he had suffered a heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[3743,106,9381,224,807,5699,12535,8684,12534,232,828,860],"class_list":["post-24009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-anthony-bourdain","tag-buffy","tag-chloe-zhao","tag-criminal-minds","tag-cw","tag-hulu","tag-kitchen-confidential","tag-michelle-trachtenberg","tag-nicholas-brendon","tag-private-practice","tag-sarah-michelle-gellar","tag-the-wb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24010,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24009\/revisions\/24010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}