{"id":12247,"date":"2014-11-06T14:02:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T22:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=12247"},"modified":"2014-11-06T14:02:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T22:02:33","slug":"purposeful-distortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/06\/purposeful-distortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Purposeful Distortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/strange-maps\/594-mind-over-map-the-world-is-what-you-make-it\">map<\/a>, slightly off-kilter but completely recognizable, by Gaicomo Faiella. Can you tell what is special\/interesting about it? (Hat tip to Joe Polchinski, and following his lead I won&#8217;t reveal the answer in this post &#8212; but feel free to leave guesses\/spoilers in the comments.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/strange-maps\/594-mind-over-map-the-world-is-what-you-make-it\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/map-z.jpg\" alt=\"map-z\" width=\"600\" height=\"429\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/map-z.jpg 600w, https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/map-z-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a map, slightly off-kilter but completely recognizable, by Gaicomo Faiella. Can you tell what is special\/interesting about it? (Hat tip to Joe Polchinski, and following his lead I won&#8217;t reveal the answer in this post &#8212; but feel free to leave guesses\/spoilers in the comments.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12251,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12247\/revisions\/12251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}