{"id":18777,"date":"2020-06-17T16:09:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T20:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=18777"},"modified":"2020-06-17T16:24:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T20:24:29","slug":"blueberries-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/blueberries-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Blueberries for All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&amp;d=sg20_digital_edition&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=50&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Remember <em>Blueberries for Sal<\/em>? We\u2019ve found her!<\/h2>\n<p><em>By\u00a0Colin W. Sargent<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 1948, impish Sal McCloskey charmed wild blueberry land and the rest of the world as the main character of her dad\u2019s Caldecott Medal-winning children\u2019s book <strong><em>Blueberries for Sal<\/em><\/strong>. In the years since, we\u2019ve upshifted to a fast and frightening world. It isn\u2019t just a black bear who chases us now. In times like these, we deserve a treat\u2014maybe the chance to meet someone sweet and eternal, if a little piquant? In fact, we need to hear from Sal right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Surprise: <strong>Sarah (\u201cSal\u201d) McCloskey<\/strong> is a real-estate attorney who for 44 years has practiced law on the coast of Maine. Do readers recognize and hail her? Do they ask her about antioxidants? The Sal we meet is succinct and tart, her wry sense of humor a little dark, like a Maine blueberry. And what she has to say is a mouthful: \u201cI\u2019m not sure I want to talk on the phone. I don\u2019t want to do the same old, same old.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Blueberries for Sal&#8217;s Sarah McCloskey.<br \/>\nBy Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18850,"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":[8,15],"tags":[1029,1028,1027,1026],"class_list":["post-18777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-classic-maine-stories","tag-blueberries-for-sal","tag-robert-mccloskey","tag-sal-mccloskey","tag-sarah-mccloskey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18777","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=18777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18811,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18777\/revisions\/18811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}