{"id":708,"date":"2010-02-02T11:16:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T16:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2010-02-02T11:16:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T16:16:51","slug":"the-pacific-islands-are-actually-just-a-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/the-pacific-islands-are-actually-just-a-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Pacific Islands&#8221; are actually just a myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So when you map them, go ahead and omit most of the Pacific. It&#8217;s empty anyway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/images\/pacificislands.jpg\" alt=\"Pacific Islands map\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The same goes for Terra Australis, but it is customary to retain an &#8220;Antarctica&#8221; label as a joke.<\/p>\n<p>Seen at Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So when you map them, go ahead and omit most of the Pacific. It&#8217;s empty anyway. The same goes for Terra Australis, but it is customary to retain an &#8220;Antarctica&#8221; label as a joke. Seen at Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[69,55,68],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-cartography","tag-antarctica","tag-bad-maps","tag-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}