{"id":2240,"date":"2016-06-16T13:36:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T17:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2016-06-16T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T17:36:10","slug":"kqed-on-the-rumsey-map-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/06\/kqed-on-the-rumsey-map-center\/","title":{"rendered":"KQED on the Rumsey Map Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

More on\u00a0the David Rumsey Map Center<\/a>, which opened last April:\u00a0KQED Radio’s Michael Krasny interviews<\/a>\u00a0David Rumsey and the Center’s head and curator, G. Salim Mohammed (28 minutes).<\/p>\n

Previously:\u00a0Stanford\u2019s David Rumsey Map Center Opens Today<\/a>;\u00a0David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Opens April 19<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More on\u00a0the David Rumsey Map Center, which opened last April:\u00a0KQED Radio’s Michael Krasny interviews\u00a0David Rumsey and the Center’s head and curator, G. Salim Mohammed (28 minutes). Previously:\u00a0Stanford\u2019s David Rumsey Map Center Opens Today;\u00a0David Rumsey Map… 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":[10],"tags":[545,48,544,400,401],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-kqed","tag-libraries","tag-radio","tag-rumsey","tag-stanford","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1605,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/04\/stanfords-david-rumsey-map-center-opens-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":2240,"position":0},"title":"Stanford’s David Rumsey Map Center Opens Today","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 April 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"As I mentioned earlier this month, the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University opens today (KQED coverage). 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