{"id":1805812,"date":"2022-01-03T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1805812"},"modified":"2022-01-03T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T20:00:29","slug":"hand-drawn-map-leads-man-abducted-in-childhood-to-birth-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/01\/hand-drawn-map-leads-man-abducted-in-childhood-to-birth-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand-drawn Map Leads Man Abducted in Childhood to Birth Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice<\/em><\/a>: \u201cIn an attempt to locate his birth family, a man who was abducted at the age of four resorted to drawing a map of his childhood hometown from memory and posting it online. The map went viral in China, resulting in the 37-year-old reconnecting this week with his long-lost mother, whom he is set to see for the first time in 33 years on Jan. 1.\u201d [MAPS-L<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vice: \u201cIn an attempt to locate his birth family, a man who was abducted at the age of four resorted to drawing a map of his childhood hometown from memory and posting it online. The… 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":[1],"tags":[182,191],"class_list":["post-1805812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-china","tag-hand-drawn","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1840588,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/05\/a-hand-drawn-map-of-the-british-isles\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805812,"position":0},"title":"A Hand-drawn Map of the British Isles","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"13 May 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Mark Esper Mark Esper spent one and a half years drawing a map of Great Britain, Ireland and the dependencies (Isle of Man, Channel Islands). 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