{"id":2592,"date":"2009-04-07T19:24:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T23:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2009-04-07T19:24:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T23:24:45","slug":"cartography-before-the-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2592","title":{"rendered":"Cartography before the horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My big job tonight<\/strong> is to make a map. My publisher wants a map for the new book. I\u2019m going to try to cobble something together in MS Publisher, showing what\u2019s where, so that the cover artist can make one that looks decent for actual publication.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always thought that my Viking books ought to have maps, concerned as they are with places that most readers don\u2019t know much about. But I never felt qualified to produce one myself, and could never afford to hire somebody to do it for me.<\/p>\n<p>But my publisher, who is a \u201cboat guy,\u201d wants a map, and apparently he\u2019ll spring for the cost. This means I must toil like a dwarf tonight to put together something vaguely helpful as a guide.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing instead of writing a long blog post.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My big job tonight is to make a map. My publisher wants a map for the new book. I\u2019m going to try to cobble something together in MS Publisher, showing what\u2019s where, so that the cover artist can make one that looks decent for actual publication. I\u2019ve always thought that my Viking books ought to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2592\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cartography before the horse<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}