{"id":21071,"date":"2022-03-23T16:05:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=21071"},"modified":"2022-03-23T16:05:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:05:35","slug":"divinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/divinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Divinity"},"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=%23dddddd&amp;d=apr22_portland_magazine&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=114&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><b>By Joan Connor<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the village, there are two candy stores\u2014the one on Main Street with the spinning red stools, and soda jerks working the fountain, and the rustling newsstand, and the shelves of souvenirs everyone forgets\u2014and the other one, the forbidden shop down the steep leg of the road with no name sliding toward the abandoned woolen mill on River Street.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The merchandise in the other one collects dust beneath the curved glass of the wooden counters. Father tells us the candy there is museum quality\u2014mallow cones and wax lips, marzipan and peppermint straws, Turkish taffy and cream filberts and licorice pipes, and spearmint leaves, coconut watermelon slices, and bacon strips.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-21072\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/last-words-divinity-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"last-words-divinity\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/last-words-divinity-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/last-words-divinity-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/last-words-divinity-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/last-words-divinity-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/last-words-divinity-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/last-words-divinity.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the village, there are two candy stores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21073,"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":[1201],"class_list":["post-21071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-april-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21071","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=21071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21075,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21071\/revisions\/21075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}