{"id":4922,"date":"2014-10-21T18:29:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T23:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2014-10-21T09:41:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:41:34","slug":"the-future-is-one-year-from-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/the-future-is-one-year-from-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The future is one year from now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three hundred and sixty-five days from now \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6Tf8mPsvcOs\">to the exact minute of this post<\/a> \u2014 the events of the opening third of &#8220;Back to the Future II&#8221; take place.<\/p>\n<p>Comcast, which owns Universal, would do good to have the USA Network run the &#8220;Back to the Future&#8221; trilogy in semi-heavy rotation in 2015. It should be trivial enough to sync the moment Doc says &#8220;We are descending toward Hill Valley, California, at 4:29 PM on October 21, 2015&#8221; <em>with that exact moment<\/em>. BTTF trilogy marathons would be way better than the never-ending string of crime procedurals.<\/p>\n<p>After 30 years (really 25 since it was filmed in 1988-89), the most accurate prediction is&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/B0chs8yIUAEfjKi.jpg\">a localized USA Today newspaper<\/a>. Unless, of course, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChicagoVince\/status\/524424939781505024\">Cubs win next year&#8217;s World Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three hundred and sixty-five days from now \u2014 to the exact minute of this post \u2014 the events of the opening third of &#8220;Back to the Future II&#8221; take place. Comcast, which owns Universal, would do good to have the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/the-future-is-one-year-from-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5426,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions\/5426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}