{"id":504304,"date":"2017-12-19T09:15:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T14:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=504304"},"modified":"2017-12-19T09:15:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T14:15:30","slug":"embedded-videos-and-email-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/12\/embedded-videos-and-email-subscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Embedded Videos and Email Subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reader just brought to my attention an issue that will probably be familiar to the four hundred or so of you who subscribe to The Map Room<\/strong>\u2019s daily email digest<\/a>: embedded videos (such as YouTube) included in blog posts don’t work in email clients, and in fact can bork the formatting of the email. A little digging on my part revealed that this is a longstanding issue<\/a>: email clients don’t generally display scripted or embedded elements. Not sure whether this is something I can fix from this end, but in the meantime I’ll try and hold off on the embedded video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reader just brought to my attention an issue that will probably be familiar to the four hundred or so of you who subscribe to The Map Room\u2019s daily email digest: embedded videos (such as… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1116],"class_list":["post-504304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","category-housekeeping","tag-email-digest","post_format-post-format-status"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788540,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/03\/some-more-coronavirus-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":504304,"position":0},"title":"Some More Coronavirus Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 March 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"The Washington Post maps COVID-19 cases by U.S. state and country (above). 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