{"id":22644,"date":"2023-02-21T15:08:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T20:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22644"},"modified":"2023-06-29T17:06:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T21:06:36","slug":"2nd-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/2nd-act\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd 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=%23f0f0f0&amp;d=fm23_final_flipbook_02.10.2023&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=58&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<h3 class=\"p1\">Three-time Olympian Julie Parisien slaloms into her patients\u2019 hearts.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Interview by Colin W. Sargent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">When did you first dream of becoming an RN, and where have you worked since then? Thank you for your service, by the way!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">When I retired from skiing in 1998, I\u2019d already taken about two years of college credits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\">For a while I considered medical school, but after a full and long career as a ski racer, I didn\u2019t have the energy in me to commit to a long education process. I wanted a work life balanced with an enjoyable play life! I worked in Winthrop in long-term care and skilled nursing; at Maine General in Augusta on a medical-surgical floor; and now in Kalispell, Montana, where I\u2019ve been for six years, in gastroenterology (endoscopy).<\/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=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2nd-Act.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2nd-Act.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2nd-Act-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2nd-Act-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2nd-Act-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2nd-Act-620x325.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympian Julie Parisien slaloms into her patients\u2019 hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22646,"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":[1272],"class_list":["post-22644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-february-march-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22644","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=22644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22907,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22644\/revisions\/22907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}