{"id":2715,"date":"2016-08-29T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=2715"},"modified":"2022-09-27T08:47:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T12:47:51","slug":"map-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/08\/map-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Map Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bir Tawil - the land that nobody wants\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J5iJSXaVvao?list=PLfxy4_sBQdxy3A2lvl-y3qWTeJEbC_QCp\" 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<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLfxy4_sBQdxy3A2lvl-y3qWTeJEbC_QCp\">Map Men<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is a YouTube series by comedians Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones. It&#8217;s funny as hell, and quite informative\u00a0too: it&#8217;s two silly people being very smart about often-silly cartographical situations. Six episodes so far; I hope they make more. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/geographical.co.uk\/places\/mapping\/item\/1859-map-men-teaching-geography-through-comedy\">Geographical<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Map Men is a YouTube series by comedians Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones. It&#8217;s funny as hell, and quite informative\u00a0too: it&#8217;s two silly people being very smart about often-silly cartographical situations. Six episodes so far;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/08\/map-men\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,139],"tags":[936,192,617],"class_list":["post-2715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-cartography","category-education","tag-fun","tag-funny","tag-map-men","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787341,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/the-return-of-map-men\/","url_meta":{"origin":2715,"position":0},"title":"The Return of &#8216;Map Men&#8217;","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 May 2019","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DeiATy-FfjI After a hiatus of more than two and a half years, Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones are back to producing new episodes of Map Men. 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Complete with map-folding mishaps, gratuitous hi-viz vest wearing, and a Google Maps dig. 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