{"id":1787140,"date":"2019-02-27T08:40:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T13:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787140"},"modified":"2019-02-27T08:40:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T13:40:17","slug":"am-new-york-on-the-nypl-map-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/02\/am-new-york-on-the-nypl-map-division\/","title":{"rendered":"AM New York on the NYPL Map Division"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meanwhile, AM New York<\/em> takes a look<\/a> at the holdings of the New York Public Library’s Map Division<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meanwhile, AM New York takes a look at the holdings of the New York Public Library’s Map Division.<\/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":[10],"tags":[48,47],"class_list":["post-1787140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-libraries","tag-nypl","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1700,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/04\/20th-century-new-york\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787140,"position":0},"title":"20th-Century New York","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 April 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Gothamist looks at\u00a0A Map of the Wondrous Isle of Manhattan, a pictorial map from 1926 created by Charles Vernon Farrow. 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