{"id":21643,"date":"2022-07-19T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=21643"},"modified":"2022-07-22T21:35:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T01:35:25","slug":"delusions-of-grandeur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/delusions-of-grandeur\/","title":{"rendered":"Delusions of Grandeur"},"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=22&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<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Big brags, compact geography. An inquiry into the far pavilions of Maine.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">By Colin W. Sargent<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">H<\/span><span class=\"s2\">idden<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> on the east side of Moosehead Lake, \u201c<strong>Maine\u2019s Grand Canyon<\/strong>\u201d lies in a narrow cleft of the world \u201cmade out of Chaos and Old Night,\u201d like <strong>Henry David Thoreau<\/strong> says. Famous to kayakers and intrepid hikers, the curiosity known as <strong>Gulf Hagas<\/strong> or \u201cThe Grand Canyon of the East\u201d has an elegant front door\u2014the town of <strong>Greenville<\/strong>. Or you can take a scrappier approach from the east, via <strong>Brownville Junction<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-21695\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Delusions1-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"Delusions1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Delusions1-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Delusions1-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Delusions1-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Delusions1-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Delusions1-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Delusions1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big brags, compact geography. An inquiry into the far pavilions of Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21696,"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":[1204],"class_list":["post-21643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-julyaugust-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21643","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=21643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21697,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21643\/revisions\/21697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}