{"id":9305,"date":"2015-10-21T15:11:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T15:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9305"},"modified":"2015-10-21T15:11:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T15:11:22","slug":"the-back-to-the-future-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/the-back-to-the-future-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"The Back To The Future Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I&#8217;m adding to all the mess of bandwagon-jumping today, but Buzzfeed&#8217;s article on the man who told the internet that Back To The Future Part 2 was July 5 2010&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/danieldalton\/days-of-future-day-past?bffbuk&amp;utm_term=.uqVj8z8jq#.xyN09M90p\">and the internet believed him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Being first to a juicy factoid like Future Day could result in a big tweet, and that meant new followers, new readers. Without resources, scoops at Total Film were rare, and we often had to rely on bigger publications to source news.<\/p>\n<p>I could have googled. I <em>should<\/em> have googled. But being first was more important. Sometimes when a mad professor turns up with a time machine strapped to a sports car you forgo the questions and just get in.<br \/>Just after 11am on 5 July 2010, I unleashed precisely 140 characters of ignorance on the internet, among them a seemingly innocuous 10-character hashtag: #futureday.<\/p>\n<p>With one boom-sounding click of a mouse, the future was history.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I&#8217;m adding to all the mess of bandwagon-jumping today, but Buzzfeed&#8217;s article on the man who told the internet that Back To The Future Part 2 was July 5 2010&#8230; and the internet believed him. Being first to a juicy factoid like Future Day could result in a big tweet, and that meant new followers, new readers. Without resources, scoops at Total Film were rare, and we often had to rely on bigger publications to source news. I could have googled. I should have googled. But being first was more important. Sometimes when a mad professor turns up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,576],"tags":[5546,3419,5069,5547,5545,130],"class_list":["post-9305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-mainstream-media","tag-back-to-the-future","tag-bttf","tag-buzzfeed","tag-daniel-dalton","tag-hoax","tag-meme","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2q5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9306,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305\/revisions\/9306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}