{"id":41239,"date":"2017-07-16T16:13:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T20:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=41239"},"modified":"2017-07-16T16:14:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T20:14:26","slug":"wibbly-wobbly-gendery-bendery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2017\/07\/wibbly-wobbly-gendery-bendery.html","title":{"rendered":"Wibbly Wobbly Gendery Bendery"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-41242\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2017\/07\/IMG_0707-598x1024.png\" alt=\"IMG_0707\" width=\"598\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n<p>With the announcement that a woman will be playing the Doctor, it occurred to me that \u201cWibbly Wobbly Gendery Bendery\u201d would be a great title for a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>I began typing\u00a0it in on Google, to see if anyone had already used the phrase, and it autocompleted it for me.<\/p>\n<p>The quote from \u201cBlink\u201d from which the phrase \u201cwibbly wobbly timey wimey\u201d is taken has already been reworked more than once to be about gender rather than time.<\/p>\n<p>You can even get a version of it on a t-shirt\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-41243\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2017\/07\/IMG_0708.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0708\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the announcement that a woman will be playing the Doctor, it occurred to me that \u201cWibbly Wobbly Gendery Bendery\u201d would be a great title for a blog post. 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