{"id":199,"date":"2014-05-22T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T20:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfredarchives.wordpress.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2014-05-22T16:30:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T20:30:49","slug":"braille-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/2014\/05\/22\/braille-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Braille Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/05\/braille-map-page.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-200\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/05\/braille-map-page.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Braille map page\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/05\/braille-map-side-view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-201\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/05\/braille-map-side-view.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Braille map side view\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/05\/braille-map-title-page.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-202 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/05\/braille-map-title-page.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Braille map title page\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a> Typically when we think of items being created in Braille, our thoughts go first to textual books. This is an example of a Braille map made of the Alfred university campus. There are no printed letters other than a label on the front cover: &#8220;A Raised Map of Alfred University Campus, 1972. Prepared by Recording for the Blind, Inc., Princeton Unit, Princeton, N.J.&#8221; There&#8217;s no indication or background available as to why the map was created, but it certainly is an interesting artifact and was hopefully of use to someone with visual difficulties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Typically when we think of items being created in Braille, our thoughts go first to textual books. This is an example of a Braille map made of the Alfred university campus. There are no printed letters other than a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/2014\/05\/22\/braille-map\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[27,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}