{"id":1958,"date":"2005-11-21T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2005-11-21T00:01:31","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T00:01:31","slug":"a_brief_history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1958","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Rand McNally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcwetboy.net\/maproom\/2005\/11\/a_brief_history_of_rand_mcnally.phtml\">The Map Room<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Samuel John Klein\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/designorati.com\/cartography\/publishers-13\/2005\/a-brief-history-of-rand-mcnally\/\">Brief History of Rand McNally<\/a> is up on Designorati today. Interesting to see that William Rand and Andrew McNally started with railroads (road travel was some decades away); their first map, in 1872, was the Railway Guide.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Map Room: Samuel John Klein\u2019s Brief History of Rand McNally is up on Designorati today. Interesting to see that William Rand and Andrew McNally started with railroads (road travel was some decades away); their first map, in 1872, was the Railway Guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}