{"id":23520,"date":"2023-08-24T08:04:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T12:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=23520"},"modified":"2023-08-24T08:04:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T12:04:38","slug":"the-art-of-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-art-of-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Baseball"},"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=%23f7f7f7&amp;d=sept23_full_book&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=18&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=\"p3\"><strong>ROUTE 88, FALMOUTH FORESIDE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Must be nice to have <strong>Van Gogh<\/strong>\u2019s <i>Irises<\/i> over your mantel while a ball game roars on your Sony Trinitron in the background. What masterpiece <i>doesn\u2019t<\/i> look great over a brew and a BLT? For our September 1996 issue, I asked <strong>gallery owner extraordinaire John Whitney Payson<\/strong> what it was like to be a regular Maine kid just like the rest of us\u2014except for the part where your mom owns the <strong>New York Mets<\/strong>.<\/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>&nbsp; ROUTE 88, FALMOUTH FORESIDE Must be nice to have Van Gogh\u2019s Irises over your mantel while a ball game roars on your Sony Trinitron in the background. What masterpiece doesn\u2019t look great over a brew and a BLT? For our September 1996 issue, I asked gallery owner extraordinaire John Whitney Payson what it was [&hellip;]<\/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":[1287],"class_list":["post-23520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-september-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23520","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=23520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23521,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23520\/revisions\/23521"}],"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=23520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}