{"id":18839,"date":"2020-06-17T16:01:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T20:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=18839"},"modified":"2020-06-17T16:01:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T20:01:50","slug":"fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meta-Memoir of Toby, the Porcine Sage"},"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=178&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Based on <em>The Life and Adventures of Toby, the Sapient Pig<\/em><i>;<br \/>\n<\/i>with his opinions on men and manners. Written by himself.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>By Joan Connor<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I\u00a0<\/span>come from a long line of learned pigs, itinerant hucksters and buskers, but not all as literate as I. My ungulate forebears may have been practicing a rote ruse as they did arithmetic and selected letters to spell out words for crowds of coin-throwers, coached by their owners. <i>So, Peter, what is that animal? C\u2014O\u2014W. <\/i>The pig pulls the cards. <i>And two plus five, Peter?<\/i> The pig pulls the seven card. A novelty but not knowledge.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summerguide 2020 fiction<br \/>\nBy Joan Connor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18848,"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":[112],"tags":[446],"class_list":["post-18839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-joan-connor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839","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=18839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18867,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839\/revisions\/18867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}