{"id":2437,"date":"2009-12-08T01:38:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T06:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2437"},"modified":"2009-12-08T01:38:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T06:38:03","slug":"cloud-of-atlases-by-the-editors-the-morning-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/08\/cloud-of-atlases-by-the-editors-the-morning-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud of Atlases by The Editors &#8211; The Morning News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Cloud of Atlases<br \/>\nMaps without legends may not be immediately informative, but determining what they represent is extremely fun. If you\u2019re into that kind of thing, THE EDITORS have a game for you.<br \/>\nABOUT THE AUTHOR<br \/>\nRosecrans Baldwin and Andrew Womack are the founding editors of The Morning News.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019ve ever picked up an old globe in a thrift store, you already know the sport of trying to determine its age based on where certain borders are demarcated and how territories are designated. And if testing your combined knowledge of history, culture, and cartography sounds like your kind of fun (it\u2019s our kind of fun), you may enjoy what we\u2019ve got in store.<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve removed the legends and all other telltale labels from the maps below, and challenge you to guess what each map depicts using only clues contained within the maps: the color-coding, names, landmarks, and whatever else you can detect. Here\u2019s one clue to get you started: None of the maps represent gross national anything.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/diversions\/cloud_of_atlases.php\">Cloud of Atlases by The Editors &#8211; The Morning News<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has been a huge time sink for today. Link surfing wikipedia has always been a weak point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud of Atlases Maps without legends may not be immediately informative, but determining what they represent is extremely fun. If you\u2019re into that kind of thing, THE EDITORS have a game for you. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rosecrans Baldwin and Andrew Womack are the founding editors of The Morning News. If you\u2019ve ever picked up an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/08\/cloud-of-atlases-by-the-editors-the-morning-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cloud of Atlases by The Editors &#8211; The Morning News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}