{"id":22817,"date":"2023-06-16T11:31:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T15:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22817"},"modified":"2023-06-16T11:31:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T15:31:17","slug":"tales-of-o-o-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/tales-of-o-o-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of O.O.B"},"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=92&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\">Understanding Maine\u2019s luminous people magnet.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p4\"><b>By Colin W. Sargent<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">The Sexy Saboteur<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">J<\/span>une 13, 1929. Twenty-two-year-old singer Arthur Schreiber had a plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">Disguised in his brother\u2019s World War I aviator togs, he headed to Old Orchard Beach for the launch of a trans-Atlantic plane race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\">Skipping the crowd preoccupied by America\u2019s <em>Green Flash<\/em>, he slipped aboard the French <em>Yellow Bird<\/em> (<i>L\u2019Oiseau Canari<\/i>) and hid behind a cache of furs, foodstuffs, and liquor. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><br \/>\nWell over the Atlantic, flight leader Armeno Lotti \u201cnoticed a pair of shoes poking from the rear fuselage,\u201d according to Bill Dantini in <em>Aviation History Magazine<\/em>. \u201c\u2019Here I am.\u2019\u201d<\/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-22818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Legends-of-OOB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Legends-of-OOB.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Legends-of-OOB-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Legends-of-OOB-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Legends-of-OOB-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Legends-of-OOB-620x325.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding Maine\u2019s luminous people magnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22819,"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-22817","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\/22817","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=22817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22874,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817\/revisions\/22874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}