{"id":6104,"date":"2017-11-13T11:39:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T10:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/?p=6104"},"modified":"2017-11-10T18:41:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T17:41:42","slug":"songs-of-london-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2017\/songs-of-london-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs of London Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/songs3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/songs3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/songs3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/songs3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Songs of London Town replaces street names with song names. The pastel coloured, hand-drawn basemap is overlaid with hundreds of song titles, each arranged over the street that it references. It&#8217;s rather a clever idea and allows for the creation of your own song-narrated self-guided tour of each central London neighborhood you happen to be in. The map covers the centre of the capital as well as decent part of the inner city &#8211; see the full map pic at the bottom of this post.<\/p>\n<p>The reverse, or &#8220;B Side&#8221; of the map, contains further details on each song reference:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/songs1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"483\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/songs1.jpg 798w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/songs1-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/songs1-768x465.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can find the map at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presentindicative.com\/products\/a-song-map-of-london-town-1\">Present Indicative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(If you like the style, also see Fictional London, which is also produced by Present Indicative, we <a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2017\/fictional-london\/\">we reviewed it recently<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/songs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"856\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/songs2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/songs2-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/songs2-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/songs2-1024x730.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Thanks to Present Indicative for a review copy.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Songs of London Town replaces street names with song names. The pastel coloured, hand-drawn basemap is overlaid with hundreds of song titles, each arranged over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,165],"tags":[892,1169,1168,1167,152],"class_list":["post-6104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historic","category-tourist","tag-music","tag-present-indicative","tag-song","tag-songs","tag-typographic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104","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=6104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6112,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions\/6112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}