{"id":1787654,"date":"2019-08-22T17:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T21:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787654"},"modified":"2019-08-22T17:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T21:02:27","slug":"ikeas-all-black-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/ikeas-all-black-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"IKEA\u2019s All-Black Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"IKEA sells an all-black globe as part of its LINDRADE series. It costs $20 in the U.S.<\/a> and \u00a317 in the U.K.<\/a>; for some reason it\u2019s not available on the Canadian store. If it were, I might just get one.<\/p>\n

Per standing IKEA policy<\/a>, New Zealand is not shown.<\/p>\n

The reviews on the U.S. store are hilarious, but on the U.K. store the single a review on the U.K. says that the globe is chalkboard (it\u2019s made of polystyrene), which makes the product a good deal less absurd. Otherwise, it occurs to me that it could make a halfway decent base on which you could paste your own globe gores. [Cartophilia<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IKEA sells an all-black globe as part of its LINDRADE series. It costs $20 in the U.S. and \u00a317 in the U.K.; for some reason it\u2019s not available on the Canadian store. If it were,… 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":[24],"tags":[26,1328],"class_list":["post-1787654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-memorabilia","tag-globes","tag-ikea","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785383,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/04\/the-rumsey-collections-augmented-reality-globe-app\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787654,"position":0},"title":"The Rumsey Collection’s Augmented Reality Globe App","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 April 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"The David Rumsey Map Collection has a number of virtual globes, but its AR Globe app may be the most unusual way to view them. 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