{"id":3072,"date":"2014-04-14T12:49:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T11:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2014-04-14T12:53:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T11:53:46","slug":"the-london-marathon-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2014\/the-london-marathon-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"The London Marathon Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/londonmarathonmedal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/londonmarathonmedal.jpg\" alt=\"londonmarathonmedal\" width=\"950\" height=\"922\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/londonmarathonmedal.jpg 950w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/londonmarathonmedal-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/londonmarathonmedal-38x38.jpg 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maps of London appear in all sorts of unexpected places and on all kinds of objects. This year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com\/\">London Marathon<\/a> finishers&#8217; medal had an expected surprise for Mapping London, there is a map of the famous course engraved on the back of it. As well as a simplified outline of the 26.2 mile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com\/interactive-map\/\">route<\/a>, a number of the famous landmarks appear, as well as, of course, the River Thames, which is as ever the canonical symbol of the metropolis, serving to orientate a London-based map reader. The other side of the medal has a nice pseudo-3D view, in relief, of the City and Bankside.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving this unexpected London map was a bonus which was appreciated by your Mapping London running correspondent, it took away the pain a little bit as he finally crossed the finishing line, having failed to notice the many iconic London views near the end of the race&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maps of London appear in all sorts of unexpected places and on all kinds of objects. This year&#8217;s London Marathon finishers&#8217; medal had an expected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[476,477,478,479,301,121,127],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-marathon","tag-medal","tag-miles","tag-object","tag-physical","tag-route","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3077,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions\/3077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}