{"id":1288,"date":"2007-08-21T07:30:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T11:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2007-08-21T07:30:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T11:30:38","slug":"on-rumored-doctor-who-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"On Rumored Doctor Who Casting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you choose to believe <i>The Sun<\/i> &mdash; which, like a stopped clock, is right only twice a day &mdash; there&#8217;s an exciting bit of <i>Doctor Who<\/i> casting coming up in the next season.<br \/>\n<!--more--><lj-cut><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/08\/21\/who_rumour\/\">Peter Davison<\/a>.  The fifth Doctor himself.  For a multi-Doctor story.<\/p>\n<p>For <i>Children in Need<\/i> 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Which makes some sense.  <i>CiN<\/i> airs in November, and November is <i>Who<\/i>&#8216;s forty-fifth anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Supposedly written by Stephen Moffat himself. \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p>The rumor seems to have originated from Sylvester McCoy, who said he heard it from Peter Jackson.  Which of course begs the question &mdash; why would Peter Jackson know?<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m not actually optimistic about this rumor.  Oh, I&#8217;d love for it to be true.  Davison was quite good as the Doctor.  I&#8217;d love a multi-Doctor story.  But I&#8217;m not holding to hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you choose to believe The Sun &mdash; which, like a stopped clock, is right only twice a day &mdash; there&#8217;s an exciting bit of Doctor Who casting coming up in the next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4082,307,133,398],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","tag-doctor-who","tag-fifth-doctor","tag-peter-jackson","tag-seventh-doctor","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}