{"id":5958,"date":"2011-10-31T21:13:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T02:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=5958"},"modified":"2011-10-31T21:13:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T02:13:33","slug":"squirrel-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/squirrel-highways\/","title":{"rendered":"squirrel highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5959\" title=\"wood-map-2\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/wood-map-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"702\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/places.designobserver.com\/slideshow\/everything-sings-maps-for-a-narrative-atlas\/30358\/2098\/2#slide\">&#8220;Squirrel Highways&#8221;<\/a>, a drawing by\u00a0Denis Wood, Carter Crawford and Shaub Dunkley, from Denis Wood&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigliopress.com\/books\/atlas.htm\">Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas<\/a><\/span>, which Wood describes as a &#8220;cartographic poem&#8221; about the North Carolina neighborhood of Boylan Heights, where he lives. \u00a0Wood evidences a fantastic ability to animate prosaic terrain through the making of maps which are simple in conception, \u00a0deliberate in execution, and, I think, derive their power from the splendid isolation that they render each element of that terrain in &#8212; power poles and power lines, traffic control signs, delivery routes, bus routes as choreography akin to ballet, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Read more about Everything Sings and view a gallery of Wood&#8217;s images <a href=\"http:\/\/places.designobserver.com\/feature\/everything-sings-maps-for-a-narrative-atlas\/30358\/\">at Places<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&#8220;Squirrel Highways&#8221;, a drawing by\u00a0Denis Wood, Carter Crawford and Shaub Dunkley, from Denis Wood&#8217;s Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas, which Wood describes as a &#8220;cartographic poem&#8221; about the North Carolina neighborhood of Boylan Heights, where he lives. \u00a0Wood evidences a fantastic ability to animate prosaic terrain through the making of maps which are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29,3],"tags":[30,661,598],"class_list":["post-5958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-geography","category-landscape","tag-cartography","tag-denis-wood","tag-north-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5975,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958\/revisions\/5975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}