{"id":9017,"date":"2026-10-08T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.example.com\/?p=9017"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:30:00","slug":"a-week-without-the-map-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/a-week-without-the-map-app\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week Without the Map App"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For one week I left the map app off and carried a folded paper map of the city I have lived in for nine years. I expected mild inconvenience. I did not expect to discover that I barely knew the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Day one: the blue dot was doing the thinking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Within an hour I realised I could not say which direction the river ran. I had walked beside it hundreds of times, always following an arrow. Without the arrow I stood at a corner turning the map around like a tourist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Midweek: landmarks come back<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Wednesday I was navigating by things: the bakery with the green awning, the church with the ugly extension, the long hill that always means I have gone too far east. These were not new. I had simply stopped looking at them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>A route you follow is not the same as a route you know.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What I am keeping<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A paper map in the bag for the first trip anywhere new.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Looking up the route before leaving, then putting the phone away.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Asking people for directions, which turns out to be a pleasant way to meet the neighbourhood.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I switched the app back on at the end of the week. I use it less, and when I do, I glance at the whole map first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven days of getting around a familiar city with a folded paper map, and what turned out to be missing from my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,19,21],"class_list":["post-9017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-field-notes","tag-cities","tag-slow-tech","tag-walking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-folio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}