{"id":12400,"date":"2017-01-12T12:14:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=12400"},"modified":"2020-04-28T10:21:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:21:55","slug":"maine-classic-portlands-first-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/maine-classic-portlands-first-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland&#8217;s First Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One man&#8217;s quest for his past leads him to the Portland of today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Story and photos by Mira Ptacin<\/em>, Summerguide 2004<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12403\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Portlands-Fam-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"Portland's Fam\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Portlands-Fam-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Portlands-Fam-768x1018.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Portlands-Fam-772x1024.jpg 772w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Portlands-Fam-200x265.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Portlands-Fam-264x350.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s noon on Wednesday, the time when Subarus zip up and down Forest Avenue for lunch break, when Portland&#8217;s crows uniformly sweep over the city and land in clumps in the trees. But here in Deering Oaks Park, a burly man, flannel clad, stands still in the muddy grass. Carefully, he leans down and picks up a broken tree branch. He shakes the dark bangs out of his face and holds the branch to the sky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Portlands-First-Family.pdf\">View this complete story as a PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Norell is descended from the Wabanaki who fought in the Battle of Deering Oaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[962,961],"class_list":["post-12400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic-maine-stories","tag-battle-of-deering-oaks","tag-robert-norell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18216,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12400\/revisions\/18216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}