{"id":1814813,"date":"2023-05-25T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1814813"},"modified":"2023-05-25T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T20:42:26","slug":"the-great-globe-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/05\/the-great-globe-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Globe Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hoo boy. Globes are everywhere and proof of round-earther brainwashing: that seems to be the point of view of Kandiss Taylor, a former Republican candidate for Georgia governor and recently elected GOP district chair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jMv-neRR3HE\">who apparently went full flat-earther in a recent podcast episode<\/a>. See coverage from <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/kandiss-taylor-flat-earth-jesus-guns-babies-1850474753\"><em>Gizmodo<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/kandiss-taylor-globes-anti-flat-earth-brainwashing-1234741082\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2023\/05\/25\/everywhere-theres-globes-georgia-chair-goes-full-flat-earther-in-wild-rant\/\"><em>Salon<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brainwashed By Globes\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jMv-neRR3HE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoo boy. Globes are everywhere and proof of round-earther brainwashing: that seems to be the point of view of Kandiss Taylor, a former Republican candidate for Georgia governor and recently elected GOP district chair who&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/05\/the-great-globe-conspiracy\/\">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":[330],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1814813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-politics","tag-globes","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1836492,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/02\/paranneaux-globes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814813,"position":0},"title":"Paranneaux Globes","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 February 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Paranneaux Globes For the past decade, Reynold Mackey of Paranneaux Globes has been sculpting physiographic globes from materials like wood and bronze. 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The digital globes will be available to view on the British Library website\u2014www.bl.uk\/collection-items\u2014from 26 March, via a viewing platform which includes an augmented reality function (available on phone\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"British Library digital globes","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bl-digital-globes-1024x683.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bl-digital-globes-1024x683.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bl-digital-globes-1024x683.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bl-digital-globes-1024x683.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5733,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/11\/meridian-old-maps-virtual-globes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814813,"position":3},"title":"Meridian: Old Maps, Virtual Globes","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 November 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Meridian, an \"experiment\" from the DX Lab at the State Library of New South Wales, overlays old maps onto virtual, 3D interactive globes. 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