{"id":58,"date":"2009-02-17T22:22:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T03:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2009-02-17T22:22:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T03:22:41","slug":"pipe-cleaner-subway-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/pipe-cleaner-subway-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipe cleaner subway map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of metro maps, and in the continued absence of any interesting work to share, permit me this moment to mention a map I recently constructed as a gift:  a map of the Boston subway system made of pipe cleaners, to be hung from a ceiling or wall.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/images\/subway_mobile.jpg\" alt=\"Boston subway map made of pipe cleaners\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\">(Pardon all the obvious wire holding it together.  This photo was taken before I trimmed the excess, and in less-than-ideal lighting.)<\/p>\n<p>Someone should manufacture this kind of thing using legitimate materials.  I&#8217;d totally buy one.<\/p>\n<p>For reference, here&#8217;s the actual Boston map.  Ignore the thin purple (commuter rail) lines and the Silver Line, which\u2014and I have nothing against bus rapid transit\u2014is BS.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/images\/bos_subway.jpg\" alt=\"Boston subway map\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of metro maps, and in the continued absence of any interesting work to share, permit me this moment to mention a map I recently constructed as a gift: a map of the Boston subway system made of pipe cleaners, to be hung from a ceiling or wall. (Pardon all the obvious wire holding it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36,28,38],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-maps","tag-boston","tag-map-projects","tag-metro-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}