{"id":2412,"date":"2009-02-20T01:35:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T06:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2009-02-28T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T21:30:59","slug":"the-peterson-projection-advocated-on-the-west-wing-television-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/02\/20\/2412\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peters Projection advocated on the West Wing television show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">NBC&#8217;s The West Wing &#8211; Why are we changing maps?? &#8211; From season 2 &#8211; Episode 16 <object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n8zBC2dvERM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n8zBC2dvERM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><small><i>A fictional group called the &#8220;Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality,&#8221; pitches President Bartlet&#8217;s staff to &#8220;aggressively support&#8221; legislation mandating every public school in America teach geography using the Peters Projection map.<\/i><\/small><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Read more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gall-Peters_projection\">Gall-Peters Projection on Wikipedia<\/a>.  Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=osQN7aSQV9w\">check out this trailer<\/a>. [VIA <a href=\"http:\/\/odtmaps.com\/what_they_are_saying\/west-wing.asp\">Press Release from 2001<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC&#8217;s The West Wing &#8211; Why are we changing maps?? &#8211; From season 2 &#8211; Episode 16 A fictional group called the &#8220;Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality,&#8221; pitches President Bartlet&#8217;s staff to &#8220;aggressively support&#8221; legislation mandating every public school in America teach geography using the Peters Projection map. Read more about the Gall-Peters Projection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,498,352,302],"tags":[7092,2114,2113,375,2020,2110,2112,2111,5892],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartography","category-found-map","category-wikipedia","category-youtube","tag-cartography","tag-equal-area","tag-fiction","tag-maps","tag-nbc","tag-peterson-projection","tag-television","tag-west-wing","tag-white-house"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":843,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}