{"id":1991,"date":"2017-10-13T11:17:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T16:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2017-10-14T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T15:55:19","slug":"blog-of-the-week-worlds-revealed-geography-and-maps-at-the-library-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/2017\/10\/13\/blog-of-the-week-worlds-revealed-geography-and-maps-at-the-library-of-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog of the Week: Worlds Revealed &#8211; Geography and Maps at the Library of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week\u2019s blog is from\u00a0the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress.\u00a0 The largest and most comprehensive cartographic collection in the world, the Geography and Map Division contains over six million maps in addition to a wide array of atlases, globes, raised relief models, archives, a vast collection of digital data and a GIS research center.\u00a0 This blog consists of unique historical maps both of the United States and the rest of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/maps\/\">https:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/maps\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s blog is from\u00a0the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress.\u00a0 The largest and most comprehensive cartographic collection in the world, the Geography and Map Division contains over six million maps in addition to a wide array &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/2017\/10\/13\/blog-of-the-week-worlds-revealed-geography-and-maps-at-the-library-of-congress\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/livesofmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}