{"id":123875,"date":"2015-12-08T04:25:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T04:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/08\/a-non-shippers-look-at-why-the-doctor-went-so-far\/"},"modified":"2015-12-08T04:25:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T04:25:13","slug":"a-non-shippers-look-at-why-the-doctor-went-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/08\/a-non-shippers-look-at-why-the-doctor-went-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"A non-shipper\u2019s look at why the Doctor went so far to save Clara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/savvyliterate.tumblr.com\/post\/134666772497\" target=\"_blank\">savvyliterate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Right off the bat, I\u2019m a balls-to-the-wall Doctor\/River shipper. I don\u2019t ship the Doctor and Clara in a romantic way and never will.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, the Doctor <b><i>loves<\/i><\/b> Clara and to the point where he would do anything to save her. It\u2019s the culmination of all the bitter, tragic losses the Doctor has endured since the Time War. It\u2019s his personal\u00a0\u201cno more.\u201d No more exile to another planet. No more forcefully wiping her memory against her will (though yes, he did plan to wipe her memory but he acknowledges Clara\u2019s agency. He <i>did<\/i>\u00a0learn something from Donna.) No more getting trapped in time. No more wiring herself to a chair and electrocuting herself. He is going to rescue Clara and send her back to a normal life because he loves her, just like he loved all his companions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/savvyliterate.tumblr.com\/post\/134666772497\/a-non-shippers-look-at-why-the-doctor-went-so-far\" class=\"tmblr-truncated-link read_more\" target=\"_blank\">Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>savvyliterate: Right off the bat, I\u2019m a balls-to-the-wall Doctor\/River shipper. I don\u2019t ship the Doctor and Clara in a romantic way and never will. That being said, the Doctor loves Clara and to the point where he would do anything to save her. It\u2019s the culmination of all the bitter, tragic losses the Doctor has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/08\/a-non-shippers-look-at-why-the-doctor-went-so-far\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A non-shipper\u2019s look at why the Doctor went so far to save Clara&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5700,13,14517,674,174,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}