{"id":21104,"date":"2022-03-23T16:05:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=21104"},"modified":"2022-03-23T16:05:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:05:49","slug":"a-toast-to-munjoy-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/a-toast-to-munjoy-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"A Toast to Munjoy Hill"},"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=36&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>A tasting tour of Oxbow Blending and Bottling.<\/h4>\n<p><b>By Pete Lyons<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">M<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ore than 200 years ago off the coast of Maine, a bloody sea battle marked by thundering cannon fire took the lives of two rival naval commanders: America\u2019s <\/span><strong>William Ward Burrows II<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 27, and England\u2019s <\/span><strong>Samuel Blyth<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 28. The two\u2014immortalized in the Longfellow poem \u201cMy Lost Youth\u201d and honored by the Portland cocktail bar <\/span><strong>Blyth &amp; Burrows<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014are buried side by side in Portland\u2019s <\/span><strong>Eastern Cemetery<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a pairing as uneasy as some of the couples we meet on <\/span><strong>Portland Maine Walking Tours<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014one thirsting for more of our fair city\u2019s 400-year history, the other just thirsty. Happily <\/span><strong>Portland<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s blessed with more breweries per capita than any city in the country, so for anybody wondering, \u201cWhere\u2019s the beer?\u201d the answer\u2019s usually \u201cRight here!\u201d\u00a0<\/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-21106\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/brew-review-oxbow-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"brew-review-oxbow\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/brew-review-oxbow-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/brew-review-oxbow-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/brew-review-oxbow-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/brew-review-oxbow-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/brew-review-oxbow-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/brew-review-oxbow.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tasting tour of Oxbow Blending and Bottling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21105,"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-21104","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\/21104","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=21104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21107,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21104\/revisions\/21107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}