{"id":521,"date":"2009-06-30T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chloeneill.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2009-06-30T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T18:02:00","slug":"my-project-for-the-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"My project for the evening."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have, of course, tons of travel guides and maps for Chicago. I peruse them before my research trips in the hopes that I won&#8217;t look like a (total) tourist while I&#8217;m there. But I also use them to keep track of locations. Merit (and, soon, Lily) hop around Chitown quite a bit, so it&#8217;s handy to keep a running list of their travels.<\/p>\n<p>But, my giant city map is looking a little worse for wear thanks to (1) too much bleed-through highlighting) and (2) the chewed-up bits on corners that have been attacked by Dog.<\/p>\n<p>Solution! Jordan Ferney is about to head to Brazil, and she&#8217;s provided a <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanferney.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/newlywed-map.html\">great post on mounting a map to foam core<\/a> so that you can cover it with sweet little tags and tacks and flags. What a great idea for science fiction\/fantasy writers who &#8220;map&#8221; out their universes! Don&#8217;t feel constrained to keep this limited to preexisting maps. Draw or sketch your own, or use a giant map of the U.S. to plot your heroines&#8217; travels!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_X4u7DRdJ1w4\/SkpUFUvZw7I\/AAAAAAAAAXM\/6ULQPf3Q3j0\/s1600-h\/IMG_4736[1].jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353183557526864818\" style=\"WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_X4u7DRdJ1w4\/SkpUFUvZw7I\/AAAAAAAAAXM\/6ULQPf3Q3j0\/s320\/IMG_4736%5B1%5D.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So sleek and shiny. I am sooooo buying foam core tonight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have, of course, tons of travel guides and maps for Chicago. I peruse them before my research trips in the hopes that I won&#8217;t look like a (total) tourist while I&#8217;m there. But I also use them to keep track of locations. Merit (and, soon, Lily) hop around Chitown quite a bit, so it&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=521\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[228],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}