{"id":19370,"date":"2020-09-30T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=19370"},"modified":"2020-10-01T12:13:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:13:56","slug":"my-own-front-porch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/my-own-front-porch\/","title":{"rendered":"My Own Front Porch"},"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=34&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Is there anything she can\u2019t do?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Interview by Colin W. Sargent<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Victoria Rowell<\/strong>\u2014the actress, writer, director, producer, activist, and mother\u2014was born in Mercy Hospital in Portland in 1959. Her birth mother was a <em>Mayflower<\/em> descendant. The Sisters of Mercy directed little Vicki to a foster home, but two and a half years after she bonded with her foster parents, \u201cMaine stepped in,\u201d Rowell says. \u201cThey said, \u2018She\u2019s black\u2014you can\u2019t keep her.\u2019 The State of Maine took me away from the Taylors because Maine was one of 16 states [at that time] where it was against the law for white parents to raise a black foster child.\u201d This tragedy sizzles through Rowell\u2019s <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling book <em>The Women Who Raised Me<\/em>. Her further adventures, from her rise to ballet prodigy, movie and television actress, bestselling author, and auteur, bring her to us now.<\/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>Victoria Rowell\u2014writer, actor, producer, &#038; treasure hunter.<br \/>\nInterview by Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19416,"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":[1144,1156],"class_list":["post-19370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-most-intriguing-mainers","tag-10-most-intriguing","tag-victoria-rowell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370","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=19370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19430,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370\/revisions\/19430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}