I'm curious how confusing this is. Posts can be associated with a specific map, as if the map owns the post. This post can also be posted to multiple maps. Currently, the owner of the post is listed under "maps" and the maps a post is posted to is under "posts_maps". The reason we don't return the ownership another way is because the post is *ac…

cm_post.json

{
    "posts": [
        {
            "externals": [],
            "locations": [],
            "maps": {
                "map_id": 35,
                "user_id": 5,
                "media_id": 0,
                "subdomain": "checkingificancreate",
                "name": "",
                "description": null,
                "avatar": "https://crowdmap.com/assets/img/default-map-avatar.png",
                "public": true,
                "moderation": "collaborator",
                "date_created": 1362113382
            },
            "media": [],
            "post_id": 294,
            "users": {
                "user_id": 5,
                "crowdmap_id": "9cdb2b03a4a21c01e055c497d38e1fb5016f6a4b628b7e18cd503f4620e68bf229d176a14b24a6c175f9e623171fa24190a15db292798c3eecdf3c8bcc2d3a6b",
                "crowdmap_id_h": "9896205ca10aa5d49ea40206fd3370ac",
                "username": "brianherbert",
                "name": "Brian H",
                "bio": "Wheaties are good. Nice, we got some of this stuff working.",
                "plus": true,
                "baselayer": "crowdmap_satellite",
                "instagram_auto_post": false,
                "date_registered": 1363603014,
                "avatar": "//www.gravatar.com/avatar/6c93aba4f1bfc1f5302f4af7c5ecb56d?r=PG&s=200&d=404",
                "badges": []
            },
            "owner_map_id": 35,
            "media_id": 0,
            "location_id": 0,
            "external_id": 0,
            "externals_images_id": 0,
            "message": "Test affiliation.",
            "date_posted": 1365539052,
            "public": true,
            "permissions": {
                "edit": false,
                "delete": false
            },
            "stub": "intl-not-compiled-with-php",
            "posts_maps": [
                {
                    "post_id": 294,
                    "map_id": 0,
                    "user_id": 0,
                    "approved": false
                }
            ],
            "tags": [],
            "posts_likes": [],
            "comments": []
        }
    ],
    "next": "http://api.crowdmap.new/v1/posts/?limit=1&offset=1",
    "curr": "http://api.crowdmap.new/v1/posts/?limit=1",
    "prev": "http://api.crowdmap.new/v1/posts/?limit=1&offset=0",
    "success": true,
    "status": 200,
    "timestamp": 1365571971,
    "qcount": 8,
    "elapsed": "0.543s"
}

trying to understand this..
if a post can have multiple maps, shouldn't 'maps' be an array?
How is the post owner normally identified? is there an owner_id?