{"id":2,"date":"2017-08-23T00:41:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T00:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/doctorwho\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-02-24T23:59:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T04:59:50","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/doctorwho\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to watch some Who!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/doctorwho\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cropped-dalekkeys-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/doctorwho\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cropped-dalekkeys-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/doctorwho\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cropped-dalekkeys-2.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/doctorwho\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cropped-dalekkeys-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>A tradition\u00a0for many years of my childhood was to spend Saturday afternoon\u00a0firmly planted in front of our television to watch the weekly broadcast of Doctor Who on our local public station, entranced with the adventures of\u00a0my favorite\u00a0Time Lord and his companions.\u00a0 Over time, it got harder to find the show as airings of\u00a0episodes locally declined and I had to expand my knowledge of the program through Target novelizations\u00a0or\u00a0even braving some\u00a0winter nights out\u00a0in our shed\u00a0watching fuzzy images from further out\u00a0stations on an old black and white antenna TV.\u00a0 Never would\u00a0I have thought that the show would resurge in popularity to the point that eventually all the\u00a0existing classic episodes would be easily available to buy and view\u00a0again and again as much as I wanted. After\u00a0completing my collection, I\u00a0figured it was time to join the\u00a0(surprisingly large) bandwagon of fans who had gone through a viewing of the show story by story in order, blogging their thoughts\u00a0along the way.\u00a0 It took a few years to get through it all, but it was quite fun re-discover everything I love about the show.\u00a0\u00a0There&#8217;s nothing astoundingly new, but feel free to browse through my journey as I highlighted my favorite quotes and moments from the show&#8217;s start\u00a0in 1963 to the end of the classic era in 1989 (and the 1996 movie).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A tradition\u00a0for many years of my childhood was to spend Saturday afternoon\u00a0firmly planted in front of our television to watch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/doctorwho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/doctorwho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/doctorwho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/doctorwho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/doctorwho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/doctorwho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/doctorwho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/doctorwho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}