{"id":20693,"date":"2021-12-01T17:09:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T22:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20693"},"modified":"2021-12-01T17:09:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T22:09:53","slug":"senses-sensibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/senses-sensibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Senses &#038; Sensibility"},"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 allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" 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?backgroundColor=%23ebebeb&#038;d=portland_magazine_dec21_issuu&#038;hideIssuuLogo=true&#038;pageNumber=34&#038;u=portlandmagazine\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Finding light in your darkest hours.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">story and photos\u00a0by Diane Hudson<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A friend looks at the jaunty, wildly comical cast of my bluebird shots and exclaims, \u201cThey look like Eddie!\u201d My partner of 30 years &amp; soulmate I\u2019ve missed every minute of the past 5 years\u2026<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">W<\/span><span class=\"s1\">hen one door closes, another opens.\u201d What a delicious chestnut\u2014assuming you can still taste chestnuts.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">After I suffered a rough bout of COVID early on in the pandemic, my case nurse told me on our daily phone check-in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\">that in terms of the CDC\u2019s guidelines I was considered recovered. But I\u2019m a food writer living in the Foodiest City in America, and I\u2019ve lost my senses of taste and smell.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20735\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sense-bluebird-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"sense-bluebird\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sense-bluebird-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sense-bluebird-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sense-bluebird-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sense-bluebird-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sense-bluebird-620x326.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/sense-bluebird.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding light in your darkest hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20736,"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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20693","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=20693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20752,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20693\/revisions\/20752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}