{"id":14625,"date":"2013-05-24T14:43:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=14625"},"modified":"2013-05-24T14:43:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:43:03","slug":"dr-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/05\/dr-who.html","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Who"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I had someone suggest to me that writing \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gallifrey\/comments\/1a5l20\/is_dr_who_okay_now\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dr. Who<\/a>\u201d is inappropriate, as it should always be \u201cDoctor Who.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That can only be said by someone who has only been watching for a relatively short number of years\u2026or at least, not since the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the way the credits looked back when the show first began:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14626\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/05\/Dr-Who-William-Hartnell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\"><\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a shot from the Patrick Troughton era:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14627\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/05\/dr-who-troughton.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\"><\/p>\n<p>And even in later times when the phrase tended not to be abbreviated in the credits, that did not mean that it was always spelled out:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/UqhYUHu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"494\"><\/p>\n<p>And so if you think you are being a true fan by objecting to the use of \u201cDr. Who,\u201d the irony is that you are in fact showing that you are a latecomer to the show and poorly informed about its history.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had someone suggest to me that writing \u201cDr. Who\u201d is inappropriate, as it should always be \u201cDoctor Who.\u201d That can only be said by someone who has only been watching for a relatively short number of years\u2026or at least, not since the beginning. 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