{"id":400265,"date":"2026-01-11T02:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T02:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/400265\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T02:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T02:19:07","slug":"t-k-carter-punky-brewster-and-the-thing-actor-dies-at-69-yahoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/400265\/","title":{"rendered":"T.K. Carter, \u2018Punky Brewster\u2019 and \u2018The Thing\u2019 Actor, Dies at 69 &#8211; Yahoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikgFBVV95cUxOZ2RCX2o1N0NNNHpfM1FWcGd6VC1DT3o0NDNrYVdWN3FueTlwd0JNNGZXVzFvNDZJMjltQzZvdzJpTm1GTGVROW5uSVFrcnBKOGtnZHkwRFIyNXZWUHR0RGg0QlZzSGUwbExNOEMtU0xWY2NjTWdqeXNZTlA5aWNhRmZlRFc2TVdIZ21wS3hrbjdlQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">T.K. Carter, \u2018Punky Brewster\u2019 and \u2018The Thing\u2019 Actor, Dies at 69<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Yahoo<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMidEFVX3lxTE5yRWk0clRCaDEwZ2I2NVZRdmhTZTBnV3h4TTlJbEJ3SDduRUlNVVVoYXFiUE9XWWNSdFA0ek9NR0FWUnVuek8tcXpxZElfcnZ3OE1TVnpycEQ2cHREWkhod3pieEpndUZXakpTa1hweGJacDE0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Veteran actor T.K. Carter, known for &#8216;The Thing&#8217; and &#8216;Punky Brewster,&#8217; dies at 69<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;NPR<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMicEFVX3lxTE1wSHVlMXJxcFp0a0kyT09sS2xHdF9YY1BDUUxpVC1aSnhQTmF0TXl3enpLcFZEY0twSTVHNG1XU1lLVWtSdlJLWmxqbldyeV9kTUR6bzhUTXBRemRGXzBZUGxkWHJrN0xISHdQZjRCd0M?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thomas Kent \u2018T.K.\u2019 Carter, \u2018Punky Brewster\u2019 and \u2018The Thing\u2019 Actor, Dies at 69<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Yahoo News Singapore<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiiwFBVV95cUxQNFBtREdiOHZISmlWbjRWbjNYS1RyTHRndGI0SzZSSVNQbmJVVG5DdXAzMjBod0FxZ1IyVElzNTZ0TnYzTVlmYnFBb0JWT1RRNFhheEVla01hU2N1SXZITHdLbGtFcHgxOW1ELXdLQkRWZVRPUDh0Z0Zfakt6Y0FxTHRDWnU0Y2gyZ3VN?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">T.K. Carter, \u2018The Thing\u2019 and \u2018Punky Brewster\u2019 Actor, Dies at 69<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;People.com<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiakFVX3lxTE1wOEljSTFPaDZNUUUtaVlVSkpabVl3OWZ1aEZQZy14WHZUYmpXbE8xcU1ZdmFQcVJwUlFhTG9hek13WUFaanZmVUVLQUZLelhvczNib2ZTeVVZVXBKU2JYcDhzUThiSXI0UGc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">T.K. Carter Dies: \u2018The Thing\u2019 &amp; \u2018Punky Brewster\u2019 Actor Was 69<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Deadline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T.K. Carter, \u2018Punky Brewster\u2019 and \u2018The Thing\u2019 Actor, Dies at 69&nbsp;&nbsp;YahooVeteran actor T.K. Carter, known for &#8216;The Thing&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,193167,193046,31023,193204,193205],"class_list":{"0":"post-400265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-punky-brewster","11":"tag-t-k-carter","12":"tag-television-series","13":"tag-thomas-kent-carter","14":"tag-tony-freeman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}