{"id":275,"date":"2005-06-21T12:50:18","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T12:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2005-06-21T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2005-06-21T12:50:18","slug":"dalek_followup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/06\/21\/dalek_followup\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalek Follow-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just to tie up a loose end, I see that British authorities have <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/somerset\/4090676.stm\">recovered<\/a> that missing Dalek <a title=\"When Fanboys Go Bad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2005\/06\/when_fanboys_go_bad\/\">I wrote<\/a> about last week. According to the BBC, the thieves decided the stolen prop was &#8220;too hot to handle&#8221; (i.e., they figured they were going to have a problem fencing it, or decided their original scheme wouldn&#8217;t be so funny if it ended with them in handcuffs), so they dumped it on Glastonbury Tor and dropped a dime to let somebody know where it was. (According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tor\">Wikipedia<\/a>, a tor is a &#8220;large hill, usually topped with rocks,&#8221; in the southwest of England.)<\/p>\n<p>The owner of the tourist attraction from which the Dalek was taken denies that this whole event was a publicity stunt, and despite the offer of his services, the presence of Colin Baker was apparently not required.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of a let-down, actually&#8230; I was hoping the thing would turn up in the middle of Piccadilly, dressed in a pink tu-tu or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to tie up a loose end, I see that British authorities have recovered that missing Dalek I wrote about last week. According to the BBC, the thieves decided the stolen prop was &#8220;too hot to handle&#8221; (i.e., they figured they were going to have a problem fencing it, or decided their original scheme wouldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}