{"id":194,"date":"2005-03-26T20:26:56","date_gmt":"2005-03-26T20:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2005-03-26T20:26:56","modified_gmt":"2005-03-26T20:26:56","slug":"doctor-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Dw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/dw_small.jpg\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re an alien, how come you sound like you&rsquo;re from up North?&rdquo; asks Rose suspiciously.&nbsp; <\/em><em>&ldquo;Other planets have Norths, you know&rdquo; replies the Doctor cheekily.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tongue in cheek? Yes.&nbsp; Faithful in tone and content? Certainly.&nbsp; The first episode of the all-new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/\">Doctor Who<\/a>&nbsp;has just finished and gets the thumbs up from me and the&nbsp;team of four Doctor Who newbies in this house.&nbsp; As someone who grew up with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cult\/doctorwho\/classic.shtml\">various incarnations<\/a> of Doctor Who, I think Chris Eccleston makes an excellent ninth Doctor and Billy Piper defies her media moppet image to have a good crack at the new sidekick, Rose.<\/p>\n<p>A great excuse to spend 45 minutes on the sofa with the kids each Saturday evening &ndash; as if one&nbsp;were needed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Dw2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/dw2_small.jpg\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re an alien, how come you sound like you&rsquo;re from up North?&rdquo; asks Rose suspiciously.&nbsp; &ldquo;Other planets have Norths, you know&rdquo; replies the Doctor cheekily. Tongue in cheek? Yes.&nbsp; Faithful in tone and content? Certainly.&nbsp; The first episode of the all-new Doctor Who&nbsp;has just finished and gets the thumbs up from me and the&nbsp;team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}