{"id":40214,"date":"2013-12-27T11:08:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T18:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/27\/the-ubiquity-of-doctor-who.html"},"modified":"2014-01-07T13:37:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T20:37:17","slug":"the-ubiquity-of-doctor-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/27\/the-ubiquity-of-doctor-who.html","title":{"rendered":"The Ubiquity of &quot;Doctor Who&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">It&#39;s almost getting to seem more cool to <i>not<\/i> be into (or know anything about) &quot;Doctor Who.&quot; \u00a0Not that I want to be part of <i>that<\/i> cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080'>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you ever needed proof that <i>Doctor Who<\/i> has hit the mainstream in America&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Which still blows my mind. I grew up on the original series and finding another Whovian back then was a lot like what The Doctor feels like when bumping into a fellow Time Lord in the new series. One of the big attractions of Sci-Fi conventions was the very good probability of fellow fans you could talk to about the show being there. A couple of weeks back a good buddy, and fellow Whovian, tweeted an image of the cover of TV Guide that had a picture of Matt Smith and an article about the 50th anniversary episode. He said it was still weird seeing that in America and I have to agree. I love it, but it&#39;s still so weird.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BxBpQu7SX6Q?version=3&#038;autohide=1' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/dMremy7o2Hi' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s almost getting to seem more cool to not be into (or know anything about) &quot;Doctor Who.&quot; \u00a0Not that I want to be part of that cool. Reshared post from +Les Jenkins If you ever needed proof that Doctor Who has hit the mainstream in America&#8230; Which still blows my mind. I grew up on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/27\/the-ubiquity-of-doctor-who.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ubiquity of &quot;Doctor Who&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv-doctor-who"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13554,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/17\/whovian_glee.html","url_meta":{"origin":40214,"position":0},"title":"Whovian Glee!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 17-Nov-08 3:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Les, a clip from the upcoming 2008 Doctor Who Christmas special. 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