static function get_nav_menu_struct($id) {
    
        global $wpdb;
    
        //We've confirmed this is our special site-map menu,
        alert('jack-links presents: messin with sitemap');
        $dat = array();
    
        //Get all object id's associated with this "site-map" nav menu
        $nav_ids = $wpdb->get_col($wpdb->prepare("SELECT object_id FROM $wpdb->term_relationships WHERE term_taxonomy_id = %d", $id ));
    
        //Get all nav_menu_item objects for the above nav_ids
        $mitems = get_posts(array(
            'post_type' => 'nav_menu_item',
            'include' => $nav_ids,
            'orderby' => 'menu_order',
            'order' => 'ASC'
        ));
    
        //Restructure by item ID and only keep the important keys
        foreach ($mitems as $itm) {
            $dat[$itm->ID] = array(
                'menu_order' => $itm->menu_order,
                'post_parent' => $itm->post_parent,
                'description' => trim($itm->post_content)
            );
        }
    
        //Query for extended nav item meta info which contains the target page ID and the parent menu item
        $meta_info = $wpdb->get_results(
            "SELECT post_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM $wpdb->postmeta
             WHERE  (meta_key = '_menu_item_object_id' OR meta_key = '_menu_item_menu_item_parent' OR meta_key = '_menu_item_classes') AND
                    post_id in (" . join(",", $nav_ids) . ")");
    
        $post_ids = array();
    
        //merge the resulting meta info into the original dat array
        foreach ($meta_info as $info) {
            if ($info->meta_key == "_menu_item_object_id") {
                $post_ids[] = $dat[$info->post_id]['post_id'] = $info->meta_value;
            }
            else if ($info->meta_key == "_menu_item_menu_item_parent") {
                $dat[$info->post_id]['menu_parent'] = $info->meta_value;
            }
            else if ($info->meta_key == "_menu_item_classes") {
                $dat[$info->post_id]['classes'] = maybe_unserialize($info->meta_value);
            }
        }
    
        //Now we get the post title for easier debugging and post menu_order to sync sorting as well as hierarchy
        $post_h = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID, post_title, menu_order FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID in (" . join(",",$post_ids) . ")");
        $post_titles = array();
        $post_orders = array();
        foreach ($post_h as $p) {
            $post_titles[$p->ID] = $p->post_title;
            $post_orders[$p->ID] = $p->menu_order;
        }
        foreach ($dat as $k => $data) {
            $dat[$k]['post_title'] = $post_titles[$data['post_id']];
            $dat[$k]['post_order'] = $post_orders[$data['post_id']];
        }
    
        return $dat;
    }