{"id":6087,"date":"2020-02-03T03:07:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=6087"},"modified":"2020-02-03T03:07:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:07:22","slug":"who-makes-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/02\/03\/who-makes-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Makes History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile across the pond, <strong><em>Doctor Who<\/em><\/strong> is making history.&nbsp; For those of you who don\u2019t know, the titular character of the venerable series has been played by 13 actors since 1963.&nbsp; I read an article that Doctor Who is being played by <strong>Jodie Whittaker<\/strong>.&nbsp; Well, I got all excited \u2013 the little boy from <strong><em>Family Affair<\/em><\/strong> finally got a gig!&nbsp; Then I realized <strong>Johnny Whitaker <\/strong>PLAYED Jody (with a Y) on the show, twin to Buffy who died of an overdose as a teen.&nbsp; This Jodie Whittaker is a woman, and she\u2019s been Doctor Who since 2017.&nbsp; The person playing the latest incarnation is actually <strong>Jo Martin<\/strong>, which is historic because Jo is the first Doctor Who of color (to say nothing of a female Doctor Who of color).&nbsp; And how clever of the Brits to do this right in the middle of <em>Brexit <\/em>and <em>Megxit<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>By the by, guess who returned to <em>Doctor Who<\/em>?&nbsp; Our very own <strong>John Barrowman <\/strong>\u2013 as Captain Jack, naturally.&nbsp; Why did it take Barrowman 10 years to rejoin to the franchise?&nbsp; Apparently the previous showrunner was not a fan.&nbsp; However, <strong>Chris Chibnall <\/strong>was recently hired \u2013 and he had previously been the showrunner for <strong><em>Torchwood<\/em><\/strong> (the <strong><em>Doctor Who<\/em><\/strong> spin-off starring Barrowman as Captain Jack).&nbsp; So that led the way to his return.&nbsp; Although Barrowman\u2019s appearance was a one-off, I am told he could be back in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile across the pond, Doctor Who is making history.&nbsp; For those of you who don\u2019t know, the titular character of the venerable series has been played by 13 actors since 1963.&nbsp; I read an article that Doctor Who is being played by Jodie Whittaker.&nbsp; Well, I got all excited \u2013 the little boy from Family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6088,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087\/revisions\/6088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}