{"id":22435,"date":"2022-11-30T10:31:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22435"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:53:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T16:53:48","slug":"no-ordinary-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/no-ordinary-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"No Ordinary Woman"},"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?backgroundColor=%23f0f0f0&amp;d=dec22_flipbook_11.18-reduced&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=18&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 allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Dear, is there something you need to tell me?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>By Gwen Thompson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>C<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ue the Hollywood romantic pairing <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of a woman in her mid-twenties with a man twice her age. The previously widowed <\/span><strong>Susan Blanchard Russwurm<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is already caring for four children (three from her first marriage and a newborn), only to find her new husband is on his deathbed\u2014and he has a bombshell to share.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now what? Bankruptcy? Bigamy? Syphilis? Did the mysterious Jamaican boy whose education in <\/span><strong>Quebec<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> he\u2019d been underwriting flash into her mind?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All we know for certain is that when her husband acknowledged his paternity <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in extremis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, she took young <\/span><strong>John Brown Russwurm<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> straight into her heart. And it wasn\u2019t just any teenager the 26-year-old welcomed<\/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=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22468\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/no-ord-woman-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/no-ord-woman-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/no-ord-woman-1-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/no-ord-woman-1-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/no-ord-woman-1-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/no-ord-woman-1-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/no-ord-woman-1-620x324.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear, is there something you need to tell me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22469,"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],"tags":[1269],"class_list":["post-22435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-december-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22435","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=22435"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22527,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22435\/revisions\/22527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}