{"id":14790,"date":"2025-04-12T21:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T21:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/14790\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T21:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T21:39:09","slug":"did-the-simpsons-predict-birmingham-bin-strikes-social-media-users-believe-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/14790\/","title":{"rendered":"Did The Simpsons predict Birmingham bin strikes? Social media users believe so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But somewhere along the way, Springfield\u2019s favourite yellow family gained a new, unexpected reputation: prophecies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From Donald Trump\u2019s presidency to the invention of smartwatches and even the discovery of the Higgs boson, The Simpsons has predicted events with an almost spooky precision.<\/p>\n<p>And now fans believe they\u2019ve spotted another prediction that hits a little closer to home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon fans say the beloved yellow family predicted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> bin strikes in an episode that first aired in 1998.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cfd6e161-c12c-4369-a336-7b3355de6ee2.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The Simpsons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But somewhere along the way, Springfield\u2019s favourite yellow family gained a new, unexpected reputation: prophecies.\u00a0 From Donald Trump\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,728,4884,10235,379,12,16,15,10236],"class_list":{"0":"post-14790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-latest-videos","14":"tag-local-hubs","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-viral-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}