{"id":22023,"date":"2022-08-19T11:07:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22023"},"modified":"2022-08-19T11:07:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:07:26","slug":"sliding-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/sliding-scales\/","title":{"rendered":"Sliding Scales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position:relative;padding-top:max(60%,326px);height:0;width:100%\"><iframe allow=\"clipboard-write\" 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=\"true\" 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=%23ededed&#038;d=sept22_flipbook_final&#038;hideIssuuLogo=true&#038;pageNumber=60&#038;u=portlandmagazine\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Dear Brittney wish you were here.<\/h3>\n<p><b>By Colin W. Sargent<\/b><\/p>\n<p>B<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eing an <\/span><strong>Olympic gold medalist<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and an international hoop star gives you a free pass just about anywhere. That\u2019s what some of us no doubt jealously thought.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But <\/span><strong>Sheremetyevo International Airport<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> outside <\/span><strong>Moscow<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> isn\u2019t exactly just about anywhere.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRussian customs officials said a U.S. basketball\u00a0player had vape cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage. A Russian news agency identified the player as <strong>[Brittney] Griner<\/strong>,\u201d the <i>New York Times<\/i> reported.\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-22024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sliding-scale-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"sliding-scale\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sliding-scale-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sliding-scale-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sliding-scale-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sliding-scale-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sliding-scale-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sliding-scale.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Brittney wish you were here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22025,"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":[1205],"class_list":["post-22023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-september-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22023","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=22023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22057,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22023\/revisions\/22057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}