{"id":220,"date":"2005-04-24T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/?p=220"},"modified":"2005-04-24T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2005-04-24T12:30:07","slug":"massive-weapons-of-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2005\/04\/massive-weapons-of-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Massive weapons of destruction&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and ready for deployment in <strong>45<\/strong> seconds no less! Was that just a little bit of politics? Oh yes.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><cite>Doctor Who<\/cite> grows up and enters its second childhood all at once.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is probably a fairly good reaction to the current state of British politics.<\/p>\n<p>So this week we learnt how to hack into the Royal Navy from a flat on a South London council estate and launch a missile to blow up Number 10 (but it&#8217;s okay &#8216;cos only nasty aliens who want to nuke the planet and sell bits of it as scrap get killed) &ndash; This is proper <cite>Doctor Who<\/cite>: totally barking mad in a very British way. Love it.<\/p>\n<p>And the stuff about vinegar and Hannibal was a nice reminder that way back in the mists of time DW had been envisioned as an educational programme.<\/p>\n<p>The plot had holes you could drive a starship through but I just don&#8217;t care. And next week we get a Dalek. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>9\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and ready for deployment in 45 seconds no less! Was that just a little bit of politics? Oh yes. Last week I said: Doctor Who grows up and enters its second childhood all at once. Which is probably a fairly good reaction to the current state of British politics. So this week we learnt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fxq5-3y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}