{"id":22934,"date":"2023-07-21T16:18:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T20:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22934"},"modified":"2023-07-21T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T20:18:09","slug":"catch-a-rising-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/catch-a-rising-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch a Rising Star"},"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=%23ededed&amp;d=ja23_full_book&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=22&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<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\">I<\/span><span class=\"s1\">n 1993, I jotted the words \u201cgood writer\u201d on the new card I\u2019d just inserted into my Rolodex. (Not a metaphor.) What an understatement! I\u2019d just accepted a short story from Sebastian Junger. Four years later, his marvelous thriller <i>The Perfect Storm<\/i> crested at No. 1 on the bestseller list. George Clooney starred in the movie.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Last week I had an email exchange with Junger, discussing old times. \u201cHi, Colin. Yes, indeed, I think that probably would have been my first published short story. Thirty years to the month. Amazing. How funny. I\u2019d completely forgotten about that&#8230;Thank you!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Catch the wave.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July\/August 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":[1277],"class_list":["post-22934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-july-august-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22934","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=22934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22977,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22934\/revisions\/22977"}],"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=22934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}