{"id":671,"date":"2007-09-19T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2007\/09\/19\/no-point-in-being-grownup-if-you-cant-sometimes-be-childish\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T22:02:00","slug":"no-point-in-being-grownup-if-you-cant-sometimes-be-childish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2007\/09\/19\/no-point-in-being-grownup-if-you-cant-sometimes-be-childish\/","title":{"rendered":"No point in being grownup if you can&#8217;t sometimes be childish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday night Starr was working on her laptop, so I wanted to put something on the TV that she didn&#8217;t have to watch. I ended up putting on the 20th anniversary DVD of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Five_Doctors\" target=\"_new\">The Five Doctors<\/a>&#8220;. Starr got sucked into it anyway, and at the end stated firmly that there was something about style and feel of the <i>Who<\/i> of the 80&#8217;s that she rather appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to just sit and bash the new show &#8211; it&#8217;s not my position at all. I am quite the fan of the Ninth Doctor, and the recently-aired (here) episode &#8220;Blink&#8221; is one of the franchise&#8217;s finest. But I get what she&#8217;s saying, and I&#8217;ve been trying to pin down what it is that I miss. Is it a certain innocence about the older show? The rampant charisma of Tom Baker? The shinier, more futuristic TARDIS interior of the period? Or should I chalk the whole feeling up to nostalgia on my part? I&#8217;m not sure.<\/p>\n<p>For those who abstain from BitTorrenting, I greatly look forward to opinions on the end-of-season three-parter. After that, I look foward to series four next year. At least I&#8217;ll be caught up this time!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a cold that&#8217;s been going around. For the past three days, I&#8217;ve been ill. Tonight&#8230; I&#8217;m VERY ill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday night Starr was working on her laptop, so I wanted to put something on the TV that she didn&#8217;t have to watch. I ended up putting on the 20th anniversary DVD of &#8220;The Five Doctors&#8220;. Starr got sucked into it anyway, and at the end stated firmly that there was something about style and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","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":[1],"tags":[67,33,36],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-doctor-who","tag-philosophy","tag-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-aP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}