{"id":1806316,"date":"2022-03-11T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1806316"},"modified":"2022-03-11T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:25:07","slug":"the-direction-of-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/the-direction-of-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"The Direction of Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/not-one-of-us.pub\/other-publications\/the-direction-of-escape-2022\/\"><p>I got lost in the map of an imaginary country.<br \/>\nThe Baedeker told me to look for the palace of government<br \/>\nand I found my great-grandmother<br \/>\nrenouncing the head of a state that was never hers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is how \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/not-one-of-us.pub\/other-publications\/the-direction-of-escape-2022\/\">The Direction of Escape<\/a>,\u201d a poem by Sonya Taaffe published at online zine <em>Not One of Us<\/em>, begins. It is a poem very much about the current moment. <a href=\"https:\/\/sovay.dreamwidth.org\/1329746.html\">Taaffe says<\/a>, \u201cThe title is a line of Le Guin\u2019s. The stories it contains are real.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got lost in the map of an imaginary country. The Baedeker told me to look for the palace of government and I found my great-grandmother renouncing the head of a state that was never&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/the-direction-of-escape\/\">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":[4],"tags":[217,585,464],"class_list":["post-1806316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-poetry","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3686,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/12\/a-map-poem-to-end-the-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806316,"position":0},"title":"A Map Poem to End the Year","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"31 December 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Author Fran Wilde closes out her map year with a\u00a0poem.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Maps and Literature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Maps and Literature","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/maps-and-literature\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"fran-wilde-map-poem","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fran-wilde-map-poem-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fran-wilde-map-poem-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fran-wilde-map-poem-1024x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/fran-wilde-map-poem-1024x1024.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3679,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/12\/more-on-escape-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806316,"position":1},"title":"More on Escape Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 December 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"I've known about escape maps\u2014maps printed on silk to help prisoners of war escape Germany during the Second World War\u2014for a while now, and have blogged about them before, but this\u00a0Atlas Obscura piece on them taught me a few things I didn't know, and is a fascinating read besides. See\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Conflicts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Conflicts","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/conflicts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Schaffhausen Airey Neave escape map. The War Office, 1940. 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