{"id":22046,"date":"2022-08-19T11:06:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22046"},"modified":"2022-08-19T11:06:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:06:35","slug":"border-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/border-patrol\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Patrol"},"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=114&#038;u=portlandmagazine\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY LORRY STILLMAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here is a familiar feel and smell to the neighborhoods of Portland that calls me back to my childhood. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sway of the trees on Longfellow Street that shadowed my walk one short block to Portland Hebrew Day School; the crunch of fallen acorns under my feet; the skating pond on Devonshire Street where we sipped scalding hot chocolate from a slim thermos and captured spring polliwogs in great metal pails, hoping to see them sprout their legs; the smell of the early lavender on the fringe of Back Cove that became the first spring bouquets I brought my mother; the shadow of the former Porteous, Mitchell and Braun building where I climbed the gilt-edged marble stairs in search of lacy handkerchiefs; the elevator of the Libby building with a tiny, uniformed man who wore white gloves to operate the spinning wheel that lifted me to my piano lesson in the fifth-floor garret.<\/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-22047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Last-Words-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"Last-Words\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Last-Words-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Last-Words-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Last-Words-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Last-Words-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Last-Words-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Last-Words.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiction by Lorry Stillman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22048,"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":[8,112],"tags":[1205],"class_list":["post-22046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-fiction","tag-september-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22046","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=22046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22063,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22046\/revisions\/22063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}