{"id":19444,"date":"2020-10-23T08:36:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T12:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=19444"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T22:05:00","slug":"stone-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/stone-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23ebebeb&amp;d=november2020&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=29&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Talents blend to create the new Children&#8217;s Museum &amp; Theatre of Maine<\/h2>\n<p><em>From Staff &amp; Wire Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I<\/span><span class=\"s1\">n the ancient folk tale \u201cStone Soup,\u201d a band of bony soldiers floats into a village and proposes to the townspeople that they make soup out of stones for all to enjoy in the village square. Wary at first, the villagers are emboldened to add some scraps of meat here, a hidden potato there. The soup deepens, becomes a rich dish to satisfy our hunger. Be degrees, everything tastes better and better. Voila. Everybody\u2019s happy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">On <b>Thompson\u2019s Point<\/b>, the soup is nearly ready for 2021\u2019s grand opening. We\u2019ve seen the fanciful structure rise courageously during COVID. There is excitement, because when the Museum merged with the Children\u2019s Theatre of Maine, a sense of our community being on stage crystallized. After all, Tony-winning actress (and <i>Portland Magazine<\/i> subscriber) Andrea Martin started her brilliant career with the Children\u2019s Theatre of Maine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">See the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/stonesoup-1.jpg\" alt=\"stonesoup\" width=\"1296\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/stonesoup-1.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/stonesoup-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/stonesoup-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/stonesoup-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/stonesoup-1-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/stonesoup-1-526x350.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talents blend to create the new Children\u2019s Museum &#038; Theatre of Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19567,"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],"tags":[1183,126,1184,163],"class_list":["post-19444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-childrens-museum-and-theatre-of-maine","tag-portland","tag-stone-soup","tag-thompsons-point"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19444","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=19444"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19642,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19444\/revisions\/19642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}