{"id":7288,"date":"2015-10-21T17:27:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T21:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7288"},"modified":"2015-10-21T17:27:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T21:27:07","slug":"back-to-the-future-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7288","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Future Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day when Marty McFly and the Doc find themselves in futuristic Hill Valley, trying to fix the future while accidentally messing up the past.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7294\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/deloreanclock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/deloreanclock.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/deloreanclock-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Too bad things are not quite as the film predicted. No flying cars powered by portable fusion generators running on garbage. No hoverboards either, nor free-floating holograms. No self-tying shoes, no self-adjusting, self-drying jackets either. And no weather service that can control the rain.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand&#8230; a Pepsi doesn&#8217;t cost $50. USA Today is still around and a newsstand copy costs &#8220;only&#8221;\u00a0$2, not 6 dollars.<\/p>\n<p>And while there is no Queen Diana, there may yet be a female President in the White House 15 months from now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7291\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/USAtoday-news.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/USAtoday-news.jpg 717w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/USAtoday-news-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and while we don&#8217;t have a Scenery Channel on cable, we have three others in its place: a Fireplace Channel, a Sunset Channel, and an Aquarium Channel. All in glorious digital HD. Yay! Welcome to the future!<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7288' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day when Marty McFly and the Doc find themselves in futuristic Hill Valley, trying to fix the future while accidentally messing up the past. &nbsp; Too bad things are not quite as the film predicted. No flying cars powered by portable fusion generators running on garbage. No hoverboards either, nor free-floating holograms. <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7288' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-technology","category-23-id","category-12-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7288"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7296,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288\/revisions\/7296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}