{"id":1805683,"date":"2021-12-15T19:07:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T00:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1805683"},"modified":"2021-12-15T19:08:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T00:08:59","slug":"this-map-print-basketball-hurts-my-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/12\/this-map-print-basketball-hurts-my-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"This Map-Print Basketball Hurts My Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SpaldingThere is something decidedly off about a map-print basketball that stretches a Mercator projection across the basketball\u2019s surface<\/a> instead of, you know, doing it like a\u00a0globe<\/em>. Why? Why would they do such a thing?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a Spalding ball exclusive to Urban Outfitters, it costs $29, and it hurts my brain. [r\/Maps<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is something decidedly off about a map-print basketball that stretches a Mercator projection across the basketball\u2019s surface instead of, you know, doing it like a\u00a0globe. Why? Why would they do such a thing? It\u2019s… 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":[110,24],"tags":[1547,571],"class_list":["post-1805683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-map-errors","category-memorabilia","tag-basketball","tag-map-projections","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3377,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/xkcds-british-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805683,"position":0},"title":"xkcd’s British Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 November 2016","format":"image","excerpt":"Today's xkcd is a British map labelled by an American. 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