{"id":22557,"date":"2023-01-17T15:42:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T20:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22557"},"modified":"2023-01-17T15:42:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T20:42:51","slug":"vanishing-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/vanishing-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanishing Act"},"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=%23e6e6e6&amp;d=portland_monthly_magazine_winterguide_2023-reduced&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 allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>I<\/b><\/span>n <strong>New York City<\/strong>, 12,000 hastily built curbside \u201c<strong>streeteries<\/strong>\u201d were rushed into place as part of the \u201cbrutal economics of COVID-19,\u201d according to curbed.com. The year 2021 was <strong>Portland<\/strong>\u2019s pandemic peak, with <strong>33 streetside dining structures<\/strong>, says Zachary Lenhert, Licensing and Housing Safety Manager for the City of Portland. Many of our alfresco eateries were masterpieces of ingenuity. I drove through the <strong>Old Port<\/strong> to see them one more time before they disappeared. They were here, now they\u2019re gone, but not for good. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Maybe the real value of these curbside accommodations\u2014which cynics call dilapidations\u2014is as mirrors to who we were, or thought we were, in 2021 and 2022. They were testimony to how creative we can be in an emergency, and this extended to our embellishing the names of our <strong>dyscurbia<\/strong>: <strong>parklets<\/strong>, <strong>shanties, pergolas, bait shacks, bubbles, igloos, dining shelters, and sheds<\/strong>. Um, some of these are what we used to call parking spots. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winterguide 2023<\/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":[1271],"class_list":["post-22557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-winterguide-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22557","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=22557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22571,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22557\/revisions\/22571"}],"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=22557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}