{"id":3124,"date":"2007-12-14T08:39:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T08:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2007-12-14T08:39:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T08:39:27","slug":"cartographia_sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3124","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cartographia&#8217; Showcases Maps as History, Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=17173936\">Talk of the Nation<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Vincent Virga&#8217;s Cartographia is a rare collection of 250 color maps and illustrations drawn from the world&#8217;s largest cartographic collection at the Library of Congress. The collection spans everything from maps of ancient Mesopotamia, to maps of Columbus&#8217; discoveries, to contemporary satellite images and maps of the human genome.<br \/>\nVirga says that maps are like time machines \u2014 they reveal as much about the society that created them as they do about the geography of the places they describe.<br \/>\nVirga discusses the collection, which he culled from the Library of Congress&#8217; millions of maps and tens of thousands of atlases.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=17173936\">Talk of the Nation<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Vincent Virga&#8217;s Cartographia is a rare collection of 250 color maps and illustrations drawn from the world&#8217;s largest cartographic collection at the Library of Congress. The collection spans everything from maps of ancient Mesopotamia, to maps of Columbus&#8217; discoveries, to contemporary satellite images and maps of the human genome.<br \/>\nVirga says that maps are like time machines \u2014 they reveal as much about the society that created them as they do about the geography of the places they describe.<br \/>\nVirga discusses the collection, which he culled from the Library of Congress&#8217; millions of maps and tens of thousands of atlases.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\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":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}