{"id":3686,"date":"2016-12-31T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2016-12-31T17:00:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T22:00:40","slug":"a-map-poem-to-end-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/12\/a-map-poem-to-end-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A Map Poem to End the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Author Fran Wilde<\/a> closes out her map year<\/a> with a\u00a0poem<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author Fran Wilde closes out her map year with a\u00a0poem.<\/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":[4],"tags":[217],"class_list":["post-3686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-poetry","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1784938,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/02\/wislawa-szymborskas-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":3686,"position":0},"title":"Wis\u0142awa Szymborska’s ‘Map’","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"6 February 2018","format":"quote","excerpt":"I like maps, because they lie. Because they give no access to the vicious truth. 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