{"id":1814,"date":"2008-08-04T23:35:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T23:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2008-08-04T23:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T23:39:00","slug":"humoristische-karte-von-europa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/humoristische-karte-von-europa\/","title":{"rendered":"Humoristische Karte von Europa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/erkansaka.net\/blog\/archive\/2008\/08\/eu_reforms_are_the_best_remedy.html\">Erkan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/dogs-of-war.html\">this truly is a superb collection<\/a>. A couple were familiar, but figurative mapmaking was a popular genre from the 18th through to the early 20th century, so little wonder a number from this exclusively First World War set were new. The real sell are the descriptions &#8211; so often satirists&#8217; points can be lost over time, and even more so when the images are reproduced a tad too small. Anyway, my favourite, by Dutch cartoonist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstworldwar.com\/bio\/raemaekers.htm\">Louis Raemaekers<\/a> &#8211; hard to believe from the style that this was drawn in 1915 (and I do love the Russian giant, too big to fit fully on the map&#8230;):<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/dogs-of-war.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3008\/2721592095_f9ccd02810.jpg\" alt=\"Het Gekkenhuis (Oud Liedje, Nieuwe Wijs)\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Erkan, this truly is a superb collection. A couple were familiar, but figurative mapmaking was a popular genre from the 18th through to the early 20th century, so little wonder a number from this exclusively First World War set &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/08\/humoristische-karte-von-europa\/\">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":[73,10,56],"tags":[120,188,119,118],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-europe","category-history","tag-art","tag-history","tag-maps","tag-wwi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}