{"id":1158,"date":"2016-03-09T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T13:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2016-04-20T10:33:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T14:33:29","slug":"xkcds-united-states-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/xkcds-united-states-map\/","title":{"rendered":"xkcd’s United States Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today’s xkcd<\/a> is a map of the United Sta\u2014wait … what has Randall\u00a0done<\/em>? My\u00a0eyes<\/em> … they’re\u00a0bleeding<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s xkcd is a map of the United Sta\u2014wait … what has Randall\u00a0done? My\u00a0eyes … they’re\u00a0bleeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[192,158,273],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-unusual-maps","tag-funny","tag-usa","tag-xkcd","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788218,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/01\/xkcd-all-south-americas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1158,"position":0},"title":"xkcd: All South Americas","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 January 2020","format":"image","excerpt":"xkcd is back with another bad map projection: in this one, it\u2019s all South Americas. 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