{"id":20519,"date":"2021-09-30T11:17:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T15:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20519"},"modified":"2021-12-01T17:25:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T22:25:54","slug":"10-things-i-love-about-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/10-things-i-love-about-october\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things I Love About October"},"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=%23e6e6e6&amp;d=portland_monthly_magazine_october_2021&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=12&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\">1. <strong>Sweater weather<\/strong>! Dido models a little Acadia National Park number in our TOC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">2. <strong>Boating<\/strong> is almost poignant in October. There\u2019s nothing like viewing spectacular shore foliage from offshore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">3. <em><strong>Tourti\u00e8res<\/strong><\/em>! It\u2019s not just about pumpkin spice. Other cold-weather comfort foods start reappearing on the menu. Taste the joy of our Franco-American heritage to the soundtrack of Jos\u00e9e Vachon\u2019s singing\/guitar-playing\/clogging in <em>The Traditions of Qu\u00e9bec and Acadia<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9Q8WOdfMWKU\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9Q8WOdfMWKU<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">4. Warm-hearted, hot-headed <strong>Scorpios,<\/strong> start celebrating our birthday (October 24 to November 21)! It\u2019s time to get your sting on! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">5. The lines have thinned, so now you can grab a slice of <strong>beach pizza<\/strong>, sidestep the gulls, and walk to the end of the pier at Old Orchard Beach under the stars. It\u2019s National Pizza Month!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">6. Mysterious, apocalyptic <strong>fall high tides<\/strong>. The surfers all turn out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">7. Not every month boasts 31 days. The first letter looks like a pumpkin, and the <strong>last day is a doozy<\/strong>. Sometimes we get two full moons!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">8. <strong>Fires in the fireplace<\/strong>. Who isn\u2019t drawn to a warm fire on a cool night? My wife is drawn to the fireplace like a cat, and actually, what creatures aren\u2019t?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">9. The last frames of <em><strong>The Hunt for Red October<\/strong><\/em> take us to Maine. Luckily, we\u2019re already here. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HCqR0_a6_so\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HCqR0_a6_so<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">10. It\u2019s <strong>not March<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20249,"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519","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=20519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20762,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519\/revisions\/20762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}