{"id":2706,"date":"2010-03-15T13:28:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2010-03-15T13:28:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:28:56","slug":"meet-doctor-whos-new-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/meet-doctor-whos-new-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Doctor Who&#8217;s new assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Observer has a interview with Karen Gillan&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Who has a new assistant, Amy Pond. Karen Gillan, who plays her, explains what it&#8217;s like to be the most envied woman in Britain<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-family: arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;\">She thought she &#8220;hadn&#8217;t a hope in hell&#8221; of securing Amy, so just went for it, without fear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-family: arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;\">&#8220;Then I got the recall, the second audition. That was when I started sweating. This huge thing. And it was so secretive I couldn&#8217;t even tell BBC reception where I was going, had to pretend it was for something called Panic Moon, which is an anagram of companion.&#8221; She was the last auditionee, and got the call later that same night that&#8217;s still changing her life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the rest of the Interview here, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/tv-and-radio\/2010\/mar\/14\/karen-gillan-doctor-who\">Karen Gillan: Meet Doctor Who&#8217;s new assistant | Interview | \t\t\t\tTelevision &amp; radio | \t\t\t\tThe Observer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Observer has a interview with Karen Gillan&#8230;. Doctor Who has a new assistant, Amy Pond. Karen Gillan, who plays her, explains what it&#8217;s like to be the most envied woman in Britain She thought she &#8220;hadn&#8217;t a hope in hell&#8221; of securing Amy, so just went for it, without fear. &#8220;Then I got the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/meet-doctor-whos-new-assistant\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->