{"id":21639,"date":"2022-07-19T15:32:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=21639"},"modified":"2022-07-22T21:33:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T01:33:46","slug":"the-catbird-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-catbird-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catbird\u00a0 Seat"},"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=%23e3e3e3&amp;d=finalpdfs07_18_22&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=16&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<p class=\"p1\">By Colin Sargent<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jill Blackwood says, \u201cWe\u2019ve been here for 16 years, but my husband\u2019s parents built the house in 1990.\u201d This spectacular spot on the Portland ship channel \u201cused to be the old <b>Cloyester Hotel<\/b>, one of those old wooden classic Maine hotels.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You mean one of the \u201csummer flammables\u201d?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cYes! It was run down,\u201d falling apart, unsaveable. Now, from this vantage point, Jill shoots pictures of yachts coming into port. \u201cThis house, this property, looks down the channel between <b>Portland Head Light<\/b> and <b>Ram Island Light<\/b>. Everything comes by us.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Just try and put one past her! She\u2019s the former principal at <b>Riverton Elementary<\/b> (now <b>Gerald E. Talbot Community School<\/b>), and years before her husband, Bob Blackwood, rose to senior vice president at <b>Norway Savings<\/b> (retiring in 2009), he \u201cwas in the special forces.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You mean he was a <b>Green Beret<\/b>?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cYes.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July\/August 2022<\/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":[1204],"class_list":["post-21639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-julyaugust-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639","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=21639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21640,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions\/21640"}],"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=21639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}