{"id":185,"date":"2026-03-02T22:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/?p=185"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:28:13","slug":"yellowstone-says-goodbye-to-kevin-costner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Yellowstone\u2019 says goodbye to Kevin Costner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yellowstone has officially said goodbye to Kevin Costner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Costner, who played ranch patriarch John Dutton since the show\u2019s 2018 debut, did not return for the second half of the final season. Ongoing scheduling conflicts tied to his Western film project Horizon led to his departure, bringing his run on the hit drama to an early end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To close the chapter, the series wrote John Dutton out of the story, marking a major turning point for the Dutton family and reshaping the show\u2019s final episodes. While Costner\u2019s exit marked the end of an era for fans, the Yellowstone universe continues through spinoffs that expand the Dutton legacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellowstone has officially said goodbye to Kevin Costner. &nbsp; Costner, who played ranch patriarch John Dutton since the show\u2019s 2018 debut, did not return for the second half of the final season. Ongoing scheduling&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwise24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}