{"id":19793,"date":"2026-01-19T07:31:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/dealing-with-projections\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:31:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:31:02","slug":"dealing-with-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/dealing-with-projections\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with projections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a long career in politics culminating in five years as Canada\u2019s ambassador to the UN, Bob Rae has some opinions on Canada\u2019s place in the world and our ability to meet collective crises together. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadaland.com\/podcast\/1298-bob-rae-just-retired-and-is-telling-all-about-what-he-saw-at-the-un\/\">CanadaLand interviewed him today<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Economist today is also speculating on what\u2019s going on and how NATO and Europe might face the current crisis. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/podcasts\/2026\/01\/19\/thin-ice-could-the-greenland-clash-kill-nato\">They spend a few minutes trying to figure out <\/a>what\u2019s motivating the US interest in Greenland and I couldn\u2019t help thinking that, in an effort to expand the size of the US on a map, someone is obsessed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Why-Does-Greenland-Look-So-Big-on-Some-Maps\">Mercator projection which makes far northern islands look bigger than entire continents. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long career in politics culminating in five years as Canada\u2019s ambassador to the UN, Bob Rae has some opinions on Canada\u2019s place in the world and our ability to meet collective crises together. CanadaLand interviewed him today. The Economist today is also speculating on what\u2019s going on and how NATO and Europe might face the current crisis. They spend a few minutes trying to figure out what\u2019s motivating the US interest in Greenland and I couldn\u2019t help thinking that, in an effort to expand the size of the US on a map, someone is obsessed with the Mercator &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Dealing with projections","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-59f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}