{"id":14796,"date":"2014-01-11T11:02:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T19:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2014\/01\/11\/14796.html"},"modified":"2014-01-11T11:02:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T19:02:40","slug":"another-peter-capaldi-connecti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2014\/01\/11\/another-peter-capaldi-connecti\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Peter Capaldi connection to Dr. Who"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just came across an old blog entry in which I linked to the IMDB entry for a 24-minute 1995 movie called <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0106961\/\">Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life<\/a><\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>I still haven't seen the movie itself. But it was written and directed by Peter Capaldi, who's about to start playing the Doctor on <cite>Doctor Who<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>And it starred Richard E. Grant.<\/p>\n<p>Who, ten years ago, starred as the Doctor in <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scream_of_the_Shalka\">Scream of the Shalka<\/a><\/cite>, an animated web-published <cite>Doctor Who<\/cite> adventure that I gather was intended to relaunch the series.<\/p>\n<p>Grant had also appeared briefly as the Doctor in the 1999 comedy <cite>Doctor Who<\/cite> special <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doctor_Who_and_the_Curse_of_Fatal_Death\">The Curse of Fatal Death<\/a><\/cite>, and he later appeared on the revived show as The Great Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that after fifty years, it's not surprising when someone associated with British TV and movies turns out to have some connection or other to the show. But I was still tickled.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across an old blog entry in which I linked to the IMDB entry for a 24-minute 1995&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speculative-fiction","category-television"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}