{"id":2190,"date":"2008-12-09T13:45:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T19:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2008-12-09T21:26:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T03:26:11","slug":"google-aint-skeered-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/the-internet-is-fun\/google-aint-skeered-i-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"Google ain&#8217;t skeered, I guess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Nashville got Google Street View before Memphis did, I wasn&#8217;t terribly surprised. I&#8217;ll bite my tongue on that subject. But when Little Rock got it before we did? That smelled. I just imagined Google minions being too chickenshit to drive around slowly through the 901 hood in their little 360-degree-camera-topped cars. Heh. But who&#8217;s got two thumbs and is a total dumbass?<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;THISGUY.&lt;&lt;&lt;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/sv?cbp=12,0,,0,5&amp;cbll=35.144561,-90.055913&amp;panoid=&amp;v=1&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=us\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=memphis+tn&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=41.682395,104.765625&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;g=memphis+tn&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=35.144561,-90.055913&amp;panoid=pWDzlgU6HeLyyHqtPjiU-Q&amp;cbp=12,0,,0,5&amp;ll=35.211405,-90.018539&amp;spn=0.227871,0.617981&amp;z=11&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><b>Edit:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/memphisnews\/status\/1047690095\">B-Rob at the <em>CA<\/em><\/a> reminds me of this story we put out in July: Google claimed Memphis was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2008\/jul\/14\/google-decides-memphis-isolated\/\">too isolated<\/a>&#8221; to merit street view. Ahahahahaa.<\/p>\n<p><b>Edit, take two:<\/b> Okay, Google does seem to be somewhat skeered. I mean, look at the gaping lack of coverage in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/3096360633\/\">this photo<\/a>. Leaving out that much of South Memphis and Orange Mound? (And Cooper-Young?) Really, Google? Maybe they&#8217;ll come back and fill in the gaps. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Nashville got Google Street View before Memphis did, I wasn&#8217;t terribly surprised. I&#8217;ll bite my tongue on that subject. But when Little Rock got it before we did? That smelled. I just imagined Google minions being too chickenshit to drive around slowly through the 901 hood in their little 360-degree-camera-topped cars. Heh. But who&#8217;s got two thumbs and is a total dumbass? &gt;&gt;&gt;THISGUY.&lt;&lt;&lt; View Larger Map Edit: B-Rob at the CA reminds me of&hellip; <\/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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[664,667,2153,666,2262],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-internet-is-fun","tag-google","tag-maps","tag-memphis","tag-street-view","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-zk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}