{"id":19368,"date":"2020-09-30T12:35:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=19368"},"modified":"2020-09-30T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:44:18","slug":"emotional-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/emotional-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Rescue"},"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=32&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Passamaquoddy advocate wins a reprieve\u2014in the afterlife.<\/h2>\n<p><em>By Colin W. Sargent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Never let it be said that you must be alive in order to be intriguing. In January 2020, the late <strong>Donald C. Gellers<\/strong>, a.k.a. <strong>Tuvia Ben Shmul Yosef<\/strong>, received a posthumous pardon for \u201cthe constructive possession of six marijuana cigarettes\u201d in 1969 at his home in Eastport. The drug bust was a retaliatory silencer for Gellers having filed a land-claims lawsuit to benefit the Passamaquoddy tribe.<\/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>Passamaquoddy advocate Donald C. Gellers wins a reprieve\u2014in the afterlife.<br \/>\nBy Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19410,"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":[1155,553],"class_list":["post-19368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-most-intriguing-mainers","tag-donald-c-gellers","tag-passamaquoddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19368","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=19368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19392,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19368\/revisions\/19392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}