{"id":554,"date":"2009-04-21T16:53:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T16:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/04\/upside-down-world.html"},"modified":"2009-04-21T16:53:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T16:53:21","slug":"upside-down-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/04\/upside-down-world.html","title":{"rendered":"“Upside down” world"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like this map.
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\nIt’s even betten when you look at it big (click me).<\/a><\/strong>
\nI find it’s a perfect illustration of how easy it is to impute unconsciously the obviously ridiculous idea that a planet floating in endless space can have a top, a bottom, and a “right” side up. And of how easy it is to have fixed and questionable ideas about everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like this map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-media"],"yoast_head":"\n"Upside down" world - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/04\/upside-down-world.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""Upside down" world - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I like this map.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/04\/upside-down-world.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-04-21T16:53:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/onecity.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/upsidedownworld.gif\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Greg Zwahlen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\"Upside down\" world - 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