{"id":1838614,"date":"2025-03-28T15:11:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1838614"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:11:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:11:54","slug":"final-weekend-for-the-membership-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/03\/final-weekend-for-the-membership-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Weekend for the Membership Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Map Room\u2019s membership drive<\/a> is entering its final weekend, and while we\u2019re getting awfully close to the goal of 22 paid members by the end of the month (i.e., Monday), we\u2019re not quite there yet. If you\u2019ve been thinking about it, now is the time to push it over the top<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some context on why I\u2019m running a membership drive, I\u2019ve posted an essay to the Patreon<\/a> on the economics of blogging: how the golden age of ad-supported blogging came to an end, the challenge of doing what I\u2019m doing in the current blogging landscape, and the state of the map blogosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Map Room\u2019s membership drive is entering its final weekend, and while we\u2019re getting awfully close to the goal of 22 paid members by the end of the month (i.e., Monday), we\u2019re not quite there… 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-1838614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-housekeeping","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1838747,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/03\/the-boy-who-couldnt-get-lost\/","url_meta":{"origin":1838614,"position":0},"title":"The Boy Who Couldn\u2019t Get Lost","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"31 March 2025","format":"aside","excerpt":"Today is The Map Room\u2019s 22nd anniversary. 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