{"id":22260,"date":"2022-10-26T11:03:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22260"},"modified":"2022-11-02T11:40:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:40:47","slug":"taking-the-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/taking-the-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Lead"},"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=28&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>Yarmouth\u2019s Kristen Stills clings to Maine as a family touchstone.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Interview by Siona Henze<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We looked through Yarmouth school alumni databases and couldn\u2019t find you anywhere. Where did you go to school?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe because I barely graduated?! Yarmouth High School for sure. Graduated 1985.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your favorite memory from growing up in Maine?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cousins Island was the local spot. The big beach trip was going to Popham. I also played a lot of wiffle ball and watched every single Red Sox game. Randomly, I was obsessed with weeding dandelions. Playing in the snow was a delight. The food, of course, is a sublime memory. The freedom I had as a kid and teen was pretty amazing and not something my kids have experienced out here in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you visit often?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My mom and my dad are both still faithful Mainers. My best friends from high school are back in Maine, so seeing them and watching all of our kids together is just a huge joy. We try to get back every summer and stay for a good chunk of time. My sons consider themselves to be \u201cHalf Mainer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22263\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hathaway-Stills-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hathaway-Stills-2.png 500w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hathaway-Stills-2-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hathaway-Stills-2-200x267.png 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hathaway-Stills-2-262x350.png 262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yarmouth\u2019s Kristen Stills clings to Maine as a family touchstone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22357,"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":[8,955],"tags":[1225,1224,1208,1076],"class_list":["post-22260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-most-intriguing-mainers","tag-autism","tag-kristen-hathaway-stills","tag-november-2022","tag-yarmouth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260","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=22260"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22407,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260\/revisions\/22407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}