{"id":1806617,"date":"2022-03-31T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T20:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1806617"},"modified":"2022-03-31T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T20:17:32","slug":"nineteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/nineteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Nineteen"},"content":{"rendered":"

In other news, today is The Map Room<\/strong>\u2019s 19th anniversary.<\/p>\n

It hasn\u2019t been a continuous run: it was on hiatus between June 2011 and January 2016 (the map content I posted to my personal blog during that time has since been brought over). But still, it\u2019s been a lot: approaching something like 6,200 blog posts as of this writing. It\u2019s kind of staggering, in hindsight.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re moved to support The Map Room<\/strong> financially, you can do so via Ko-Fi<\/a> or my hosting provider<\/a>. It\u2019s very much appreciated, and will help keep things going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In other news, today is The Map Room\u2019s 19th anniversary. It hasn\u2019t been a continuous run: it was on hiatus between June 2011 and January 2016 (the map content I posted to my personal blog… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-housekeeping","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1791657,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/09\/the-vinland-map-is-a-fake\/","url_meta":{"origin":1806617,"position":0},"title":"‘The Vinland Map Is a Fake’","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 September 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"The general consensus has been for some time that the Vinland Map is a modern forgery. 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