{"id":2400,"date":"2011-08-01T09:06:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T06:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2011-08-01T09:06:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T06:06:49","slug":"cartographic-octopii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/08\/01\/cartographic-octopii\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartographic octopii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Jacobs surveys <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/39146\">the cartographic land octopus<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I suspect it\u2019s those tentacles that explain why the octopus became cartography\u2019s favourite land monster. They turn the CLO into a perfect emblem of evil spreading across a map: its ugly head is the centre of a malevolent intelligence, which is manipulating its obscene appendages to bring death and destruction to its surroundings. This is perfect for demonstrating the geographic reach of an enemy state\u2019s destructive potential. [&#8230;] The migration of the Kraken to land, somewhere around 1870, can be seen as an escalation, symbolising the hardening of international attitudes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/rusie1870.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"rusie1870\" width=\"529\" height=\"380\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2401\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Jacobs surveys the cartographic land octopus&#8230; I suspect it\u2019s those tentacles that explain why the octopus became cartography\u2019s favourite &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/08\/01\/cartographic-octopii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}