{"id":7565,"date":"2011-11-30T16:24:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T21:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=7565"},"modified":"2011-11-30T16:24:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T21:24:53","slug":"john-barrowman-is-captain-jack-harkness-in-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/john-barrowman-is-captain-jack-harkness-in-real-life\/","title":{"rendered":"John Barrowman is Captain Jack Harkness In Real Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/headline_barrowman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7566\" title=\"headline_barrowman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/headline_barrowman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/headline_barrowman.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/headline_barrowman-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John  Barrowman, the actor known for portraying Captain Jack Harkness on  BBC\u2019s Dr. Who and Torchwood is now a hero in the real world as well.<\/p>\n<p>While  staying in a Glasgow\u2019s Radisson Blu hotel, Barrowman tackled a teen who  was caught trying to steal from the hotel. The teen made it by security  guards and punched one of the attendants. Being in the right place at  the right time, Barrowman then tackled the youth and held him until  police could show up to apprehend him. Barrowman, who was escorting his  parents back to their room after a concert they had all attended,  described the situation as such:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe  heard this woman scream and shout, \u2018Stop him, stop him.\u2019 We saw this  young boy running down the hallway. I told the concierge to chase him  and called the hotel operator and told them to block the staircase so we  could get him. The lad had tried to get away through the staff elevator  and punched the concierge. I grabbed the kid\u2019s ankles, yanked him to  the ground and then pulled him out into the hallway. I pinned him down.  My tour manager then arrived and the three of us held him down until the  police came.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then,  in a compassionate and classy move, he stated that he would like to  offer the youth a job. \u201cIt was sad. He was only 14 or 15. I think he was  on drugs. But I&#8217;d like to find out the boy&#8217;s story and give him a  second chance. Maybe he could work in the pantomime over Christmas to  give him a sense of responsibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Barrowman, the actor known for portraying Captain Jack Harkness on BBC\u2019s Dr. Who and Torchwood is now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7568,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565\/revisions\/7568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}