{"id":2512,"date":"2026-06-04T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/once-upon-a-time-and-not-any-time-either\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:44:00","slug":"once-upon-a-time-and-not-any-time-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/once-upon-a-time-and-not-any-time-either\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a Time (and Not Any Time Either!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><p>Okay, here&#8217;s what this old man remembers nearly a quarter of a century later. I was living in New York City (as I still am) when, on September 11, 2001, two hijacked planes full of passengers hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, killing almost 3,000 innocent people. Until that moment, of course, such a thing would have been beyond inconceivable, no less watchable on TV, in the United States of America. Had someone written up such a plot with Osama bin Laden and crew in the cast of characters, it would have been treated as the worst kind of unpublishable science fiction. But, of course, it did indeed happen and, in some strange sense, in its wake&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/tomdispatch.com\/once-upon-a-time-and-not-any-time-either\/\" class=\"read-more\" aria-label=\"Read more about Once Upon a Time (and Not Any Time Either!)\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/tomdispatch.com\/once-upon-a-time-and-not-any-time-either\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Once Upon a Time (and Not Any Time Either!)<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tomdispatch.com\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TomDispatch.com<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<br><a href=\"https:\/\/tomdispatch.com\/once-upon-a-time-and-not-any-time-either\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link  tomdispatch.com<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Okay, here&#8217;s what this old man remembers nearly a quarter of a century later. I was living in New York City (as I still am) when, on September 11, 2001, two hijacked planes full of passengers hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, killing almost 3,000 innocent people. Until that moment, of course, such a thing would have&hellip;","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}