{"id":21080,"date":"2022-03-23T16:06:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=21080"},"modified":"2022-03-23T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:06:27","slug":"making-it-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/making-it-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Making It New\u00a0"},"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=%23dbdbdb&amp;d=apr22_portland_magazine&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=74&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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Renewing your vows in Maine.<\/h4>\n<p><b>By Colin w. Sargent<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">D<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o you remember that dance at the <\/span><strong>River Club<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> after the war (you name the war\u2014there\u2019s always a war) when we locked eyes with each other for the first time? Remember our secret path to the beach through the sea roses? The night we drove all the way back to the cabin to find your hat and caught the moonrise over the lake? Do we love each other even more than that\u2014this second, right now?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the movies and in real life, lovers travel through hell or high water to find their way back to the exact spots where they first met or fell in love. The phenomenon is called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">querencia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. That\u2019s why dear places and touchstones shimmer in many a vow renewal. Old postcards, a rope bracelet, the end of a breakwater or favorite pier.<\/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-21081\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/making-it-new-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"making-it-new\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/making-it-new-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/making-it-new-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/making-it-new-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/making-it-new-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/making-it-new-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/making-it-new.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renewing your vows in Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21082,"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":[1201],"class_list":["post-21080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-april-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21080","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=21080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21083,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21080\/revisions\/21083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}