{"id":22250,"date":"2022-10-25T12:21:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T16:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22250"},"modified":"2022-10-26T11:03:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:03:45","slug":"block-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/block-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Block Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><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=24&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><\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Picasso painted with a flashlight.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carol Schiller paints with communities.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>By Diane Hudson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>W<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hen Carol Schiller founded the University Neighborhood Organization in 2005, Longfellow Park lay awash in darkness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A divide existed between students and faculty who lived in the neighborhood and residents who considered them vaguely threatening transients. \u201cThere was a lot of negativity towards the USM students, so we formed this organization to welcome them. We are open to everybody and want them to be part of the neighborhood. We asked the students \u2018What do you want?\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22251\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Schiller-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Schiller-1.png 500w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Schiller-1-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Schiller-1-200x267.png 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Schiller-1-262x350.png 262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/span><\/em><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picasso painted with a flashlight.\u00a0Carol Schiller paints with communities. By Diane Hudson When Carol Schiller founded the University Neighborhood Organization in 2005, Longfellow Park lay awash in darkness. A divide existed between students and faculty who lived in the neighborhood and residents who considered them vaguely threatening transients. \u201cThere was a lot of negativity towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22352,"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":[955],"tags":[1215,1218,1217,1208,1216,1219,1220],"class_list":["post-22250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-most-intriguing-mainers","tag-carol-schiller","tag-lighting","tag-longfellow-park","tag-november-2022","tag-schiller","tag-university-neighborhood-organization","tag-usm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22250","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=22250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22322,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22250\/revisions\/22322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}