{"id":22343,"date":"2022-10-26T11:03:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T15:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22343"},"modified":"2022-11-02T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T15:43:20","slug":"stairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/stairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Stairs"},"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=114&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<p><em><strong>By Louis Sigaud<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">M<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">y name is Amelia Wood. I am thirty-eight years old, I wait tables for a living, and I hate the rain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many people think it&#8217;s weird to hate the rain. Those people have clearly never been without a car. My commute forces me to walk on the shoulder of a busy road, and the cars almost always splash me as they pass. That means that I arrive at work wet at the very least, and sometimes soaked if a big truck or bus passes me. When that happens I get yelled at by Matt, the owner and manager of The Scarlet Peacock in Lewiston, where I work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New fiction By Louis Sigaud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22368,"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":[8,112],"tags":[1126,885,1268,1208],"class_list":["post-22343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-fiction","tag-last-words","tag-lewiston","tag-louis-sigaud","tag-november-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343","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=22343"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22410,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343\/revisions\/22410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}