{"id":17492,"date":"2020-02-20T15:57:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T20:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=17492"},"modified":"2020-04-30T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T14:06:00","slug":"desk-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/desk-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Desk Set"},"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=10&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Imagine a piece of furniture that\u2019s kept its lively eyes open in the same house for most of Maine\u2019s statehood. Such is the magnetism of Henry Longfellow\u2019s Rainy Day desk in the <strong>Wadsworth-Longfellow House<\/strong> at 489 Congress Street. \u201cIt was at this desk that Longfellow wrote \u2018The Rainy Day\u2019 poem,\u201d says John Babin of Maine Historical Society. \u201cIt\u2019s mahogany and mahogany veneer.\u201d Gazing at the garden through the window, \u201cHe would have seen the wall and the vine both mentioned in the poem.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Read the full\u00a0letter in the digital magazine above.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/category\/editor\/\">Click here to\u00a0view past\u00a0<strong>Letters from the Editor.<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February\/March 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17135,"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":[9],"tags":[792,794,793],"class_list":["post-17492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-henry-longfellow","tag-the-rainy-day","tag-wadsworth-longfellow-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492","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=17492"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18437,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17492\/revisions\/18437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}