{"id":22830,"date":"2023-06-16T11:30:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T15:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22830"},"modified":"2023-06-29T16:57:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:57:39","slug":"guitar-heroine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/guitar-heroine\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Hero(ine)"},"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=118&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=\"p2\">When Joanna Connor slides in from Chicago, you know it\u2019s a home run.\u00a0The legendary blues artist and her band set the Maine coast on fire July 16.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">Interview by Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Why do you like returning to the North Atlantic Blues Festival?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>P<\/b><\/span>aul Benjamin knows how to put a festival together. He treats the performers really well. Right on the water. They feed us lobsters backstage! That doesn\u2019t happen everywhere we go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">I love your slide guitar playing. When I first heard you play, I wondered, how could a person make such a universal sound like birds are flying around her in three dimensions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Well, thank you! Once I\u2019m warmed up and loose, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m living in real time.<\/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-22831\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Guitar-Heroine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Guitar-Heroine.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Guitar-Heroine-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Guitar-Heroine-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Guitar-Heroine-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Guitar-Heroine-620x325.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanna Connor slides in from Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22832,"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-22830","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\/22830","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=22830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22897,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22830\/revisions\/22897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}