{"id":21649,"date":"2022-07-19T15:30:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=21649"},"modified":"2022-07-22T21:34:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T01:34:55","slug":"beach-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/beach-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Babies"},"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=48&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>Wild beach plums<\/b>: Is this <b>tangy fruit<\/b> suddenly <b>trending<\/b> again?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">BY GWEN THOMPSON<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">W<\/span><span class=\"s1\">ould Princess Aurora have slumbered shoreside within a white bower of wild beach plum blossoms, if <i>Sleeping Beauty<\/i> had been set in Maine? It all depends which century she slept through.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Plums in Peril<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s1\">Although they&#8217;re considered to be at fairly low risk of extinction globally, and once flourished along the sandy shores of Southern and Mid-Coast Maine, <i>Prunus maritima<\/i> is now classified as \u201ccritically imperiled\u201d on the <strong>Maine Department of Agriculture<\/strong><b>, <\/b><strong>Conservation and Forestry<\/strong>&#8216;s list of endangered plants, documented in only eleven towns in <strong>Cumberland, Knox<\/strong>, <strong>Sagadahoc<\/strong>, and <strong>York<\/strong> counties, due to beachfront development encroaching on its habitat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-21683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BeachPlum-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"BeachPlum\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BeachPlum-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BeachPlum-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BeachPlum-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BeachPlum-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BeachPlum-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BeachPlum.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild beach plums: Is this tangy fruit suddenly trending again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21684,"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":[8,315],"tags":[1204],"class_list":["post-21649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-hungry-eye","tag-julyaugust-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649","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=21649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21685,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions\/21685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}