{"id":20433,"date":"2021-08-25T15:08:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20433"},"modified":"2021-08-25T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:37:12","slug":"the-captains-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-captains-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Captain&#8217;s Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e2e2e2&amp;d=september2021&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=90&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>By Colin Fleming<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0&#8220;Well, he&#8217;s back again,&#8221; my husband, Jacob, declares as the breakfast march begins.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The breakfast march comprises the two of us coming down the hallway on a Saturday, single file, after a night three feet apart in bed, because it&#8217;s not possible to stand side by side, which is the dimensional reality of the corridors of a house from 1721. The oak of the walls is blackened in the manner of quality aged rum or the honeycomb of a well-worked hive that falls to the ground and cracks open in autumn. Charred, tarry wood brushed with beeswax and a veneer of smoke from cured fish.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Whatever,&#8221; Jacob adds, the tart, thin smile of an apple rind in his voice. One of those smiles that tries to go somewhere and doesn&#8217;t make it. &#8220;Old bastard&#8217;s earned it.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><em>See the full story\u00a0in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20434\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Fiction-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"Fiction\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Fiction-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Fiction-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Fiction-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Fiction-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Fiction-620x326.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Fiction.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New fiction By Colin Fleming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20435,"comment_status":"closed","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-20433","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\/20433","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=20433"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20451,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20433\/revisions\/20451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}