{"id":1787136,"date":"2019-02-27T08:37:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T13:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787136"},"modified":"2019-02-27T08:40:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T13:40:38","slug":"osher-map-library-tv-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/02\/osher-map-library-tv-segment\/","title":{"rendered":"Osher Map Library TV Segment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.newscentermaine.com\/embeds\/video\/97-3a713cc3-cc3a-4d20-8a9a-b0d3d163a536\/iframe\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>News Center Maine<\/em>, the news wing of Portland, Maine NBC affiliate WCSH, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscentermaine.com\/article\/news\/local\/207\/heres-your-guide-to-one-of-americas-great-map-collections-hint-its-right-here-in-maine\/97-e2cb4af4-800f-4795-8a02-8179395342ef\">has a segment<\/a> profiling the <a href=\"https:\/\/oshermaps.org\">Osher Map Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff News Center Maine, the news wing of Portland, Maine NBC affiliate WCSH, has a segment profiling the Osher Map Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[48,447],"class_list":["post-1787136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-libraries","tag-osher","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785651,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/05\/peggy-osher-1929-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787136,"position":0},"title":"Peggy Osher, 1929-2018","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 May 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Peggy Osher died Tuesday at the age of 88, the Portland Press-Herald reports. 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