{"id":17486,"date":"2020-02-20T16:08:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T21:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=17486"},"modified":"2020-05-07T10:27:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T14:27:18","slug":"love-in-a-cold-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/love-in-a-cold-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Love in a Cold Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&amp;backgroundColorFullscreen=%23d2d2d2&amp;d=portland_magazine_febmarch_2020&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=20&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Two hundred years <\/b>of the <b>Maine mating game<\/b>.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">February\/March 2020<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>By Sofia Voltin<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;It is perhaps the most difficult thing in the world to convince ourselves that we are or can be loved in return.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u2014 Henry Poor (Bangor) in a letter to his fianc\u00e9, Mary Pierce, 1839.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I<\/span><span class=\"s1\">s Maine too frigid to be hot? A recent survey by <em>Big 7 Travel<\/em> ranks us as the country\u2019s 46th sexiest state. At least we weren\u2019t 50th\u2014sorry, Nebraska. <em>Slate<\/em> magazine suggests the same: \u201cAccording to research on embodied cognition, humans are primed to conflate temperature with emotional perception of relationships.\u201d What does that say to a state that has, at best, a short spring? The unfair caricature of us is that we\u2019re cold, reticent, laconic, shut off. But here\u2019s our secret. We\u2019re all naked under our snowsuits. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine\u2019s relationship status over two centuries.<br \/>\nBy Sofia Voltin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[749,747,750,748],"class_list":["post-17486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-jennifer-weissner","tag-ron-feintech","tag-sleep-divorce","tag-the-couples-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17486","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=17486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18650,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17486\/revisions\/18650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}