{"id":22952,"date":"2023-07-21T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T20:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22952"},"modified":"2023-08-09T12:47:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T16:47:06","slug":"lobster-poundings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/lobster-poundings\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobster Poundings"},"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=62&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\"><span class=\"s1\">Face it: it\u2019s summer, and the lobster jokes are coming fast and furious\u2014the good, the bad, and the ugly.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Compiled by Miles Berry<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">True Story\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s3\">W<\/span><span class=\"s1\">hen I was nine years old in 1960, I spent most of my summer trying to catch a lobster on a handline baited with clams. After several weeks of frustrating near misses, I finally managed to land the beast. Was it a \u201cshort\u201d? All I know is that my mom cooked it and I ate it for dinner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u00ad\u2014Tim Sample<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Speed Dating\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">In the 2015 dystopian movie <i>The Lobster<\/i>, the main character, David (Colin Farrell), loses his wife to another man and is sent to a hotel where he has forty-five days to find another partner. If not? He\u2019ll be turned into an animal of his own choosing, which is\u00ad\u2014you guessed it\u2014a lobster.\u00a0<\/span><\/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-22954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lobster-Poundings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lobster-Poundings.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lobster-Poundings-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lobster-Poundings-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lobster-Poundings-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lobster-Poundings-620x325.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Face it: it\u2019s summer, and the lobster jokes are coming fast and furious\u2014the good, the bad, and the ugly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22953,"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":[8,1281],"tags":[1277],"class_list":["post-22952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-highlight-top","tag-july-august-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22952","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=22952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22985,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22952\/revisions\/22985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}