{"id":30135,"date":"2016-06-04T11:50:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T16:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30135"},"modified":"2016-06-04T11:50:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T16:50:52","slug":"the-shapes-of-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30135","title":{"rendered":"The Shapes of Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even the clouds are Game of Thrones fans; this one is a map of Westeros.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160604_113142-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"20160604_113142\" class=\"aligncenter aligncenter wp-image-30134\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few months ago at work, I had to write a description of a <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> map.  It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve seen many times before, and for the first time it struck me that the map must be a Mercator projection so the north must be deformed and oversized in the way that Greenland and Baffin Island are deformed on Mercator projection maps.<\/p>\n<p>These are the kind of thoughts that preoccupy my time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the clouds are Game of Thrones fans; this one is a map of Westeros. A few months ago at work, I had to write a description of a Game of Thrones map. It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve seen many times before, and for the first time it struck me that the map must be a Mercator<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30135\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Shapes of Clouds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[3932,3921,4443],"class_list":["post-30135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-pennsylvania","tag-westeros","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}