{"id":1192,"date":"2016-03-14T10:33:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T14:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2016-03-14T12:32:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T16:32:47","slug":"the-onion-on-fantasy-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/the-onion-on-fantasy-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Onion on Fantasy Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/grown-man-refers-to-map-at-beginning-of-novel-to-f-35883\">The Onion<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/grown-man-refers-to-map-at-beginning-of-novel-to-f-35883\">, two years ago<\/a>: &#8220;Unable to picture where in the Grand Realm the destroyed fortress was in relation to the dreaded desert of Quiltar, a fully grown adult man referred to the map on the opening pages of the fantasy novel\u00a0<i>The Tower Of Astalon<\/i>\u00a0Friday to determine the location of the ruined castle of Arnoth, accounts confirmed.&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PetersonGIS\/status\/709204999725645824\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion, two years ago: &#8220;Unable to picture where in the Grand Realm the destroyed fortress was in relation to the dreaded desert of Quiltar, a fully grown adult man referred to the map on&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/the-onion-on-fantasy-maps\/\">More<\/a><\/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":[4],"tags":[31,192,353],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-fantasy-maps","tag-funny","tag-the-onion","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1808675,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/08\/another-onion-riff-on-fantasy-novels-and-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1192,"position":0},"title":"Another Onion Riff on Fantasy Novels and Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 August 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"The Onion: Underwhelming Fantasy Novel Starts With Map Of Ohio. \u201cFeeling let down to see a straightforward rendering of the Midwestern state, local reader Kyle Nuebart reported Friday that underwhelming fantasy novel Dayton Rising featured a map of Ohio in its opening pages.\u201d I\u2019m impressed that they went to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Maps and Literature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Maps and Literature","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/maps-and-literature\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Onion: Fantasy map of Ohio","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/onion-fantasy-ohio-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5404,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/12\/the-onion-on-apple-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1192,"position":1},"title":"The Onion on Apple Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 December 2012","format":"video","excerpt":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/BQkZ2CV3Fb0 The Onion\u2019s take on the Apple Maps thing totally steals the punchline from Christopher Rowe\u2019s fantastic 2006 short story, \"Another Word for Map Is Faith,\" which you can listen to here (previously).","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/BQkZ2CV3Fb0\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1787384,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/fantasy-maps-dont-belong-in-the-hands-of-fantasy-characters\/","url_meta":{"origin":1192,"position":2},"title":"Fantasy Maps Don\u2019t Belong in the Hands of Fantasy Characters","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"28 May 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"My latest piece for Tor.com went live this morning. It\u2019s called \u201cFantasy Maps Don\u2019t Belong in the Hands of Fantasy Characters\u201d and it deals with the question of in-world fantasy maps: the maps that characters inside a fantasy novel might use. 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