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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal<\/em> has a take on what GPS does to our ability to navigate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has a take on what GPS does to our ability to navigate.<\/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":[254],"tags":[274,936,192,1370],"class_list":["post-1812735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-gps","tag-comics","tag-fun","tag-funny","tag-smbc","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787611,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/smbcs-alternatives-to-a-flat-earth\/","url_meta":{"origin":1812735,"position":0},"title":"SMBC’s Alternatives to a Flat Earth","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 August 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"It\u2019s not like xkcd has a monopoly on comics about maps. 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