{"id":1787611,"date":"2019-08-15T14:32:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787611"},"modified":"2019-08-15T14:32:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:32:45","slug":"smbcs-alternatives-to-a-flat-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/smbcs-alternatives-to-a-flat-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"SMBC’s Alternatives to a Flat Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cFlat,\u201d SMBC<\/abbr>, 8 Aug 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s not like xkcd has a monopoly on comics about maps. Last week, Zach Weinersmith\u2019s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal<\/em> web comic posted a comic about alternative non-spherical Earth theories<\/a>: everything from a hollow Earth to, well, stranger variations\u2014including a slightly lumpy oblate spheroid Earth, which I frankly find hard to believe in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not like xkcd has a monopoly on comics about maps. Last week, Zach Weinersmith\u2019s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal web comic posted a comic about alternative non-spherical Earth theories: everything from a hollow Earth to,… 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":[233],"tags":[274,1371,936,192,1370],"class_list":["post-1787611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-unusual-maps","tag-comics","tag-flat-earth","tag-fun","tag-funny","tag-smbc","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788490,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/02\/smbc-takes-the-mercator-projection-into-its-own-hands\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787611,"position":0},"title":"SMBC Takes the Mercator Projection into Its Own Hands","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 February 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal\u2019s take on the Mercator projection is ... not what you\u2019d expect. 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