{"id":42233,"date":"2013-02-22T11:35:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T19:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=42233"},"modified":"2013-02-22T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T19:35:58","slug":"harper-exits-csi-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2013\/02\/harper-exits-csi-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper Exits &#8216;CSI: NY&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nine seasons of playing Dr Sheldon Hawkes,\u00a0<strong>Hill Harper<\/strong> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/02\/hill-harper-leaves-csiny-joins-covert-affairs-as-new-regular\/\" target=\"_blank\">exiting<\/a> <em>CSI: NY<\/em>. Once again on the bubble for renewal, Harper&#8217;s contract was up at the end of the current season and the actor is moving on to USA Network&#8217;s <em>Covert Affairs<\/em> as a series regular. Harper first appeared in the backdoor pilot back in <em>CSI: Miami<\/em>&#8216;s second season as a New York medical examiner and became a full-fledged CSI in the show&#8217;s second season. His last episode will air tonight, which is also potentially the series&#8217; last.<\/p>\n<p>This mark&#8217;s the third major exit during the show&#8217;s run&#8211;<strong>Vanessa Ferlito<\/strong> left in Season Two and former leading lady <strong>Melina Kanakaredes<\/strong> departed at the end of Season Six.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nine seasons of playing Dr Sheldon Hawkes,\u00a0Hill Harper is exiting CSI: NY. Once again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2908],"tags":[2918],"class_list":["post-42233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-ny","tag-harper"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Shane Saunders","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/shane\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-ny\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI: New York<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI: New York","comment_count":"10","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42239,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42233\/revisions\/42239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}