{"id":21645,"date":"2022-07-19T15:30:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=21645"},"modified":"2022-07-22T21:35:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T01:35:18","slug":"from-the-catbird-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/from-the-catbird-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Catbird 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=30&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\"><b>Look who\u2019s<\/b> been <b>slinking<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>into port<\/b> during <b>COVID<\/b>!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">A PHOTO DIARY BY YACHTSPOTTER JILL BLACKWOOD<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">M<\/span><span class=\"s1\">eet Jill Blackwood of South Portland. She\u2019s a hobby photographer with a hawk eye and a healthy streak of curiosity\u2014think Jimmy Stewart, keeping an eye on things with his camera in<i> <\/i><strong>Rear Window<\/strong><i>\u2026<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI live in the <strong>Loveitts Field<\/strong> neighborhood,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s on the ship channel, about halfway between <strong>Ram Island Ledge Light<\/strong> and <strong>Portland Head Light<\/strong>. You can see the entrance to <strong>Whitehead Passage<\/strong> between <strong>Peaks <\/strong>and <b>Cushing <\/b><strong>Islands<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">You can see the world gliding by. It\u2019s been an eye-opener, especially during COVID.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOnce I retired and was around the house more often to see the ships that pass, I asked myself, <i>Who are all these people who can afford these enormous yachts? <\/i>I started snapping and researching.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">To learn more about Jill Blackwood and her husband, Bob, see this month\u2019s Letter from the Editor, p. 14.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u00ad\u2014Research by Jill Blackwood, Luca Antolini, Sofie Brown, Natalie Foster, Siona Henze, Lily Randall, and Gwen Thompson<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-21692\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/CatbirdSeat-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"CatbirdSeat\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/CatbirdSeat-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/CatbirdSeat-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/CatbirdSeat-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/CatbirdSeat-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/CatbirdSeat-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/CatbirdSeat.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look who\u2019s been slinking  into port during COVID!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21693,"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-21645","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\/21645","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=21645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21694,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21645\/revisions\/21694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}