{"id":985,"date":"2016-02-22T12:09:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=985"},"modified":"2016-02-23T14:41:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T19:41:39","slug":"japanese-rail-network-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/japanese-rail-network-1936\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Rail Network, 1936"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xoverit.tumblr.com\/post\/139456174951\/a-sightseers-travel-map-of-japan-showing-famous\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"986\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/japanese-rail-network-1936\/jnr-1936\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jnr-1936.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1680,985\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"jnr-1936\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jnr-1936-300x176.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jnr-1936-1024x600.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-986\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jnr-1936-1024x600.jpg\" alt=\"jnr-1936\" width=\"840\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jnr-1936-1024x600.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jnr-1936-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jnr-1936-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jnr-1936-1200x704.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jnr-1936.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xoverit.tumblr.com\/post\/139456174951\/a-sightseers-travel-map-of-japan-showing-famous\">Scans from\u00a0a colourful Japanese rail network map from 1936<\/a>. Because it&#8217;s 1936, the map includes Taiwan, Korea and Manchuria.\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/transitmaps.tumblr.com\/post\/139545639545\/japan-rail-1936\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scans from\u00a0a colourful Japanese rail network map from 1936. Because it&#8217;s 1936, the map includes Taiwan, Korea and Manchuria.\u00a0[via]<\/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":[102,40,39,41],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-japan","tag-railroads","tag-railways","tag-trains","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5196,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/10\/a-map-of-the-entire-french-rail-network\/","url_meta":{"origin":985,"position":0},"title":"A Map of the Entire French Rail Network","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 October 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"I love track network maps. 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