{"id":4848,"date":"2011-01-12T06:45:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T11:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=4848"},"modified":"2011-01-10T00:00:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T05:00:47","slug":"back-to-the-future-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/12\/back-to-the-future-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Future&#8230; or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/comixed.memebase.com\/2011\/01\/02\/4-koma-comic-strip-sometimes-i-wonder\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Back to the Future humor\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/backtothefuture_humor.jpg\" alt=\"Back to the Future humor\" width=\"450\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Y&#8217;know, it&#8217;s a pretty sad state of affairs when the future predicted in <em>Back to the Future Part II<\/em> was more 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