{"id":365,"date":"2008-12-16T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/12\/16\/strange-maps-are-cool\/"},"modified":"2008-12-16T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T13:28:00","slug":"strange-maps-are-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/12\/16\/strange-maps-are-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange maps are cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/strangemapsoverlay1-729488.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer;width: 320px;height: 200px\" src=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/strangemapsoverlay1-729446.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>A poster to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/beatblog\/blogger.php\">Beat Authority music blog<\/a> turned me on to the really, really cool blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/\">Strange Maps<\/a>.  The title pretty much covers what it is &#8211; a map of a Dutch city <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/14\/347-leyden-in-the-style-of-de-stijl\/\">in the style of an artist<\/a>, a map comparing <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/11\/343-to-which-viktor-the-spoils-a-tale-of-two-ukraines\/\">Ukranian voting patterns<\/a> to imperial Russian borders, a map comparing where people say <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/18\/308-the-pop-vs-soda-map\/\">&#8220;soda&#8221; or &#8220;pop&#8221; or &#8220;coke&#8221;<\/a>, southern Ontario <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/11\/340-the-southern-ontario-elephant\/\">as an elephant<\/a>.  If you like maps, it&#8217;s a dream come true.<\/p>\n<p>While listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/archive.php?id=12628\">Brian Mann&#8217;s story today on rural voting patterns<\/a>, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/15\/330-from-pickin-cotton-to-pickin-presidents\/\">an incredibly cool map<\/a> comparing southern counties where Obama won and counties of maximum cotton production pre-Civil War.  Amazing, and big thanks to the folks at Strange Maps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poster to my Beat Authority music blog turned me on to the really, really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}