{"id":19354,"date":"2020-09-30T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=19354"},"modified":"2020-10-01T12:13:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:13:20","slug":"forgiving-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/forgiving-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgiving Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&amp;d=oct20_flipbook&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=18&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Family man. Son. Peacemaker. Mainer.<\/h2>\n<p><em>By Colin S. Sargent<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>David Patrick<\/strong> grew up in Orrington and went to the University of Maine, where he earned his B.S. in Marketing &amp; International Business and his Master\u2019s in Social Work. He\u2019s now Maine\u2019s NAACP Political Action Chair, a proud husband and father, co-founder of Racial Equity &amp; Justice, an urban gardener, and an advocate for equity. We asked David to share his Maine journey with us.<\/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>NAACP&#8217;s David Patrick is a co-founder of Racial Equity &#038; Justice.<br \/>\nBy Colin S. Sargent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19409,"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":[8,955],"tags":[1144,1141,1142,1143],"class_list":["post-19354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-most-intriguing-mainers","tag-10-most-intriguing","tag-david-patrick","tag-naacp","tag-racial-equity-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19354","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=19354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19429,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19354\/revisions\/19429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}