{"id":35701,"date":"2024-12-02T02:51:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=35701"},"modified":"2024-12-02T02:51:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T02:51:13","slug":"child-actor-melissa-sue-anderson-left-little-house-43-years-ago-this-is-her-at-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=35701","title":{"rendered":"Child actor Melissa Sue Anderson left \u2018Little House\u2019 43 years ago, this is her at 62"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Melissa Sue Anderson, best known as Mary Ingalls on&nbsp;<em>Little House on the Prairie<\/em>, left the show in 1981 to explore new roles, including a stark turn in the slasher film&nbsp;<em>Happy Birthday to Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After growing tired of her \u201cblind and boring\u201d character, Anderson shifted focus to family life. She married Michael Sloan in 1990, raising two children in Canada, where she now resides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though she hasn\u2019t pursued acting in recent years, Anderson remains remembered for her Emmy-nominated role and her autobiography,\u00a0<em>The Way I See It<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-32.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35702\" style=\"width:370px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-32.png 1000w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-32-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-32-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Sue Anderson, best known as Mary Ingalls on&nbsp;Little House on the Prairie, left the show in 1981 to explore new roles, including a stark turn in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35704,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35701\/revisions\/35704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}