{"id":646,"date":"2005-06-11T11:20:22","date_gmt":"2005-06-11T16:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/06\/11\/646\/"},"modified":"2005-06-11T11:28:49","modified_gmt":"2005-06-11T16:28:49","slug":"646","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/06\/11\/646\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who Dalek Kidnapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/images\/wordpress-entries\/daleknote.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin: 5px 20px 5px 0;\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Dalek Ransom Note\" \/>The BBC has a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/somerset\/4077698.stm\">news story<\/a> online about a prankster group calling itself the &#8220;Guardians of the Planet Earth&#8221;, which has managed to steal a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dalek\">Dalek<\/a> prop on display in a Somerset, England tourist attraction called the Wookey Hole Caves.<\/p>\n<p>The Dalek comes from the long-running British science fiction series <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doctor_Who\">Doctor Who<\/a>, which explains why the ransom note demands further instructions from the show&#8217;s main character, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Doctor_%28Doctor_Who%29\">the Doctor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the ransom note, the Dalek&#8217;s &#8220;plunger arm&#8221;, referred to in the letter as it&#8217;s &#8220;destructive mechanism&#8221;, was left at the scene of the theft.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colin_Baker\">Colin Baker<\/a>, who played the 6th Doctor from 1984 to 1986, is currently in contact with the attraction&#8217;s officials and may be used to send a message to the so-called kidnappers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has a news story online about a prankster group calling itself the &#8220;Guardians of the Planet Earth&#8221;, which has managed to steal a Dalek prop on display in a Somerset, England tourist attraction called the Wookey Hole Caves. The Dalek comes from the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who, which explains why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/06\/11\/646\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doctor Who Dalek Kidnapped&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}