{"id":2557,"date":"2016-08-08T08:02:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T12:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2016-08-08T08:07:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T12:07:14","slug":"wonderground-map-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/08\/wonderground-map-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonderground Map Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wonderground-calendar\"<\/a>Here’s a coincidence for you. On Saturday,\u00a0the day after\u00a0I posted about an exhibition of MacDonald Gill’s pictorial maps<\/a>,\u00a0I\u00a0discovered, while shopping at\u00a0a local stationery store<\/a>, that there was such a thing as a MacDonald Gill Wonderground Map of London calendar<\/a>. (It’s also available on Amazon<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Previously:\u00a0MacDonald Gill Exhibition in San Diego<\/a>;\u00a0MacDonald Gill\u2019s Wonderground Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a coincidence for you. On Saturday,\u00a0the day after\u00a0I posted about an exhibition of MacDonald Gill’s pictorial maps,\u00a0I\u00a0discovered, while shopping at\u00a0a local stationery store, that there was such a thing as a MacDonald Gill Wonderground… 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":[49,24],"tags":[596,166,595,460],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-art","category-memorabilia","tag-calendar","tag-london","tag-macdonald-gill","tag-pictorial-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2549,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/08\/macdonald-gill-exhibition-in-san-diego\/","url_meta":{"origin":2557,"position":0},"title":"MacDonald Gill Exhibition in San Diego","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"5 August 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Art Meet Maps: The World of MacDonald Gill is an exhibition of nine of MacDonald Gill\u2019s pictorial\u00a0maps at the Map and Atlas Museum of La Jolla\u00a0in La Jolla, San Diego, California. 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