{"id":413,"date":"2003-04-17T20:32:05","date_gmt":"2003-04-18T01:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=413"},"modified":"2003-04-17T20:32:05","modified_gmt":"2003-04-18T01:32:05","slug":"im_the_map_im_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/17\/im_the_map_im_t.html","title":{"rendered":"I’m the map, I’m the map, I’m the map"},"content":{"rendered":"

(With apologies to Dora<\/i>.) Here’s a fun “pin the country name on the country” game<\/a>, focusing on the Middle East and Saharan Africa — the Islamic world, more or less. <\/p>\n

I got 21 right before those non-Mediterranean African nations and those ex-Soviet republics started screwing me up.<\/p>\n

(via ASM<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(With apologies to Dora.) Here’s a fun “pin the country name on the country” game, focusing on the Middle East and Saharan Africa — the Islamic world, more or less….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135782,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/09\/theres-place-got-go-im-one-need-know-im-map.html","url_meta":{"origin":413,"position":0},"title":"“If there’s a place you got to go, I’m the one you need to know, I’m the map!”","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Jan-18 7:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"(With apologies to Dora the Explorer ...) 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