{"id":214,"date":"2008-04-02T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblankscreen.co.uk\/selfdistract\/2008\/04\/02\/becoming-who-man\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T10:03:00","slug":"becoming-who-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2008\/04\/02\/becoming-who-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Who-man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presuming that all goes well with various other plans for Doctor Who coverage on the RadioTimes.com website, next week sees me starting my very own Who blog on the site. <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re thinking that this is what the world needs, another Doctor Who blog. Ah, but is it in fact what RT needs? The idea is I&#8217;m to coo about what I like in each episode (presuming that I do, which is never guaranteed but looking at the form the series has, is a bit bleedin&#8217; likely) and then a conversation can hang off the end of it with RadioTimes.com readers saying yay\/nay\/exterminate* (*delete as applicable).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll put up a link here if it all goes ahead; I&#8217;d greatly appreciate your nipping off to read it and proving to RT that I am the Who-man that they appear to think.<\/p>\n<p>I would actually say that I&#8217;m Drama-man, but you won&#8217;t believe me, you&#8217;ll think science fiction geek because: I&#8217;ve just heard BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Journey into Space and really enjoyed it. It&#8217;s the Saturday Play in a week or two. And it&#8217;s written by Charles Chilton, the man who wrote the original ones starting 50-odd years ago. He&#8217;s apparently 91, still working, and I&#8217;m told he still has a handshake that can crush a walnut.<\/p>\n<p>William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presuming that all goes well with various other plans for Doctor Who coverage on the RadioTimes.com website, next week sees &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2008\/04\/02\/becoming-who-man\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4chyI-3s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}