{"id":22968,"date":"2023-07-21T16:19:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T20:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22968"},"modified":"2023-07-21T16:19:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T20:19:55","slug":"the-rower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-rower\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rower"},"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=138&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=\"p2\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">By Jason Brown<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">T<\/span><span class=\"s1\">he reasons for my wandering mind must be a simple matter: an architect recently retired to our town on the coast of Maine and began to row his single shell in the river that parallels the\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">route I take every morning to drink coffee with the other geezers at the Front Street Diner. The first time I noticed him, I pulled off the road and watched him just long enough to determine that he\u2019d had coaching at some point in his life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><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-22969\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-Rower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-Rower.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-Rower-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-Rower-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-Rower-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/The-Rower-620x325.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New fiction by Jason Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22970,"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":[112],"tags":[1277],"class_list":["post-22968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-july-august-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22968","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=22968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22989,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22968\/revisions\/22989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}