{"id":22232,"date":"2022-10-26T11:03:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22232"},"modified":"2023-02-20T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T18:39:20","slug":"loomings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/loomings\/","title":{"rendered":"Loomings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\">\n<p><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=nov22_portland_monthly_magazine&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=14&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" 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><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moby Dick<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> begins with \u201cCall me Ishmael.\u201d Everybody knows that. Except it isn\u2019t true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ahead of those words is Chapter 1\u2019s title, \u201cLoomings.\u201d Melville warns that distortion and magic lie ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><b>looming<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a nautical mirage, a meteorological act of fiction created by bending light. Once I watched <\/span><b>Boon Island Light<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the rocks below it levitate to a point that seemed 20 feet above the horizon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1208],"class_list":["post-22232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-november-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22232","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=22232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22617,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22232\/revisions\/22617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}