{"id":1787197,"date":"2019-03-25T18:47:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T22:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787197"},"modified":"2019-03-25T18:47:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T22:47:22","slug":"a-map-of-modern-day-westeros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/03\/a-map-of-modern-day-westeros\/","title":{"rendered":"A Map of Modern-Day Westeros"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Art designer James Shadrach Schoenke imagines a modern-day Westeros with a modern-style map<\/a> that mimics the design of European road maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Art designer James Shadrach Schoenke imagines a modern-day Westeros with a modern-style map that mimics the design of European road maps.<\/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":[31,552],"class_list":["post-1787197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-fantasy-maps","tag-westeros","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2279,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/06\/fantasy-maps-middle-earth-vs-westeros\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787197,"position":0},"title":"Fantasy Maps: Middle-earth vs. Westeros","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 June 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"In the latest instalment of Hannah Stahl's series of posts on fantasy maps at the Library of Congress's map blog (see previous entry), she takes as a starting point my argument that Tolkien's map of Middle-earth is the\u00a0progenitor map from which the modern fantasy map design is descended, and compares\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Maps and Literature"","block_context":{"text":"Maps and Literature","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/maps-and-literature\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3661,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/12\/applying-fantasy-maps-to-globes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787197,"position":1},"title":"Applying Fantasy Maps to Globes","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 December 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Map to Globe is an online tool that allows you to transfer a flat map onto a globe. 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