{"id":5673,"date":"2006-12-06T08:27:31","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T13:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2011-05-01T14:25:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T18:25:45","slug":"the-great-pit-of-carkoon-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5673","title":{"rendered":"The Great Pit of Carkoon, et al"},"content":{"rendered":"

Map of Tatooine.<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s one of my new favorite sites by the way – it’s called Strange Maps<\/a>. I LOVE maps, especially strange ones. I love old maps – with mermaids and sea monsters on the edges. I also love maps like the ones at the start of the Ring Trilogy – maps of fantasy places, but so well thought out they seem to be real. So a whole blog devoted to maps??? LOVE IT.<\/p>\n

Like this.<\/a><\/p>\n

Or this.<\/a><\/p>\n

I could stare at that for half an hour straight and not get sick of it. Reminds me of being a little kid and just sitting and looking through the World Atlas. I still love to do that, actually. I am sitting on my bed right now – and from where I sit – I can see three maps on my wall. A world map (already out of date – it lists “Yugoslavia”, for example). A geological map of the county I grew up in in Rhode Island. An old map of Ireland. Love maps.<\/p>\n

Here’s another cool one<\/a>. The blogger’s commentary is good, too – I like the observations.<\/p>\n

And I always loved maps like this<\/a> when I was little. I loved anything that gave me an idea of the SCOPE of things. Like when you learn how many earths would fit in Jupiter, for example. That little factoid blew my 8 year old mind, and I still have not really recovered.<\/p>\n

Anyway – it’s a great site – I love it – and I have Tommy to thank<\/a> for pointing it out to me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Map of Tatooine. That’s one of my new favorite sites by the way – it’s called Strange Maps. I LOVE maps, especially strange ones. I love old maps – with mermaids and sea monsters on the edges. I also love … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2088],"tags":[451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37249,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions\/37249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}