{"id":1119,"date":"2008-01-30T07:56:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T15:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2008\/01\/greetings_from_south_africa_ak\/"},"modified":"2008-01-30T07:56:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T15:56:53","slug":"greetings_from_south_africa_ak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/greetings_from_south_africa_ak.php","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from South Africa (aka, Wisconsin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/10\/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/images\/gdp.jpg\" alt=\"States and GDP\" align=\"right\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" border=\"0\"><\/a>I&#8217;m rather fond of maps that offer new perspective on familiar terrain. There&#8217;s a whole series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.public.asu.edu\/~aarios\/resourcebank\/maps\/page3.html\">upside-down world maps<\/a>, for example, that put the southern pole on top. The idea that north is up is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/classics\/a2_159.html\">a relic of past cultural preference<\/a> (of the map-makers and their patrons). Why not nudge the presumption?<\/p>\n<p>Similar insights and brain-bending are available <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/10\/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps\/\">through this map<\/a>, renaming each of the United States with the countries that most closely match their Gross Domestic Product.<\/p>\n<p>Since our news system and national bias in the United States tend to insulate us from global insight, I&#8217;m glad for any opportunity to connect local experience with the larger world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m rather fond of maps that offer new perspective on familiar terrain. There&#8217;s a whole series of upside-down world maps, for example, that put the southern pole on top. The idea that north is up is a relic of past cultural preference (of the map-makers and their patrons). Why not nudge the presumption? Similar insights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}