{"id":22809,"date":"2023-06-16T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T15:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22809"},"modified":"2023-08-24T09:43:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T13:43:41","slug":"magic-passages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/magic-passages\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Passages"},"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=%23e9e9e9&amp;d=pm_summerguide_2023&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=76&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 class=\"p2\">You don\u2019t have to be a mountain climber to see the mountain. Come with us on five mystical 100-foot journeys.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\">From Staff &amp; Wire Reports<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">A<\/span>s fellow explorers, we respect the hard way to discover Maine but sometimes share a guilty pleasure when we\u2019re jumped by beauties that barely require a single step.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">While some of us love the thrill of a steep ascent in crampons, others crave the big payoffs of a 100-foot journey: the Lazy Hiker\u2019s Lobster experience with the shell already cracked for us.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s only a few steps to the ramp of a sea plane waiting to take you wheeling over Mt. Kineo. It\u2019s also a hundred feet from the porch of the Bar Harbor Inn to the dock where the schooner <i>Margaret Todd<\/i> is tied up, ready to take you on a romantic island cruise. It\u2019s far less than one hundred feet from your car to one of Maine\u2019s many scenic overlooks. As for the rest of this story, it\u2019s yours with just the turn of a page.<\/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-22810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Magic-Passages.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Magic-Passages.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Magic-Passages-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Magic-Passages-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Magic-Passages-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Magic-Passages-620x325.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don\u2019t have to be a climber to see the mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22811,"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":[1276],"class_list":["post-22809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-summerguide-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22809","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=22809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22896,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22809\/revisions\/22896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}