{"id":20234,"date":"2021-06-17T17:05:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20234"},"modified":"2021-06-17T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:05:12","slug":"the-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-guest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position:relative;padding-top:max(60%,326px);height:0;width:100%\"><iframe sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"position:absolute;border:none;width:100%;height:100%;left:0;right:0;top:0;bottom:0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=summerguide_2021&#038;pageNumber=202&#038;u=portlandmagazine\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Joan Connor<\/p>\n<p>Some summers all the cousins came. They came from New Jersey. And Pennsylvania. They came from Oregon. One car came from South Carolina, another from New Hampshire. A few from Massachusetts. None from New York. They parked in the field, bumper stickers a democratic blue. (Except for one.) They parked in the field ringed by mountains. No clunkers among these cars. They came without rust. They came without dents, without dings.<br \/>\nMost summers the cousins came for fun\u2014cookouts, and G and T\u2019s, Fruits of the Forest pies, ironic square dances, and iconic Norman Rockwell parades. Jokes on the porches. Re-told stories. Remembered and remembered memories of memories. But this was not most summers.<\/p>\n<p><em>See the full story\u00a0in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20236\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-last-words-fb.jpg\" alt=\"sg21 last words - fb\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-last-words-fb.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-last-words-fb-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-last-words-fb-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-last-words-fb-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-last-words-fb-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-last-words-fb-620x326.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New fiction by AWP winner Joan Connor <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20235,"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":[],"class_list":["post-20234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20234","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=20234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20296,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20234\/revisions\/20296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}