{"id":1787341,"date":"2019-05-14T11:09:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T15:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787341"},"modified":"2022-09-27T08:47:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T12:47:36","slug":"the-return-of-map-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/the-return-of-map-men\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of &#8216;Map Men&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why do maps show places that don&#039;t exist?\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DeiATy-FfjI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>After a hiatus of more than two and a half years, Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones are back to producing new episodes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLfxy4_sBQdxy3A2lvl-y3qWTeJEbC_QCp\"><em>Map Men<\/em><\/a>. Back in 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/08\/map-men\/\">I called the series<\/a> &#8220;two silly people being very smart about often-silly cartographical situations&#8221; (though I may have gotten that backward). Anyway, they&#8217;re back, with episodes on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9DqZYsckBwI\"> geological origins of the English-Scottish border<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DeiATy-FfjI\">trap streets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a hiatus of more than two and a half years, Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones are back to producing new episodes of Map Men. Back in 2016 I called the series &#8220;two silly people&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/the-return-of-map-men\/\">More<\/a><\/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":[29,139],"tags":[936,192,617,636],"class_list":["post-1787341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-cartography","category-education","tag-fun","tag-funny","tag-map-men","tag-trap-streets","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2715,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/08\/map-men\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787341,"position":0},"title":"Map Men","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 August 2016","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/J5iJSXaVvao?list=PLfxy4_sBQdxy3A2lvl-y3qWTeJEbC_QCp Map Men is a YouTube series by comedians Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones. 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