{"id":23527,"date":"2023-08-24T08:05:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T12:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=23527"},"modified":"2023-08-24T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T13:44:08","slug":"the-heart-of-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-heart-of-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heart of Selling"},"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=32&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\">In the Kennebunks, Jim and Rich Keating were masters of the lost art of friendly persuasion.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p4\">Interview by Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Even after the Kennebunkport Playhouse burned to the ground, Arundel Opera Theatre was razed, and Lyric Theatre was downgraded to a gift shop, there was plenty of theater left in the Kennebunks. A lot of it was happening at J. J. Keating Auctioneers, with the late Jim Keating (1946\u20132020) and Rich Keating directing the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\">Jim was the wild card, an angel and a devil, the entertainer of the two. Rich played the straight man, the art expert, the numbers guy. Sadly, the auction house closed last summer; Richard lifts the tent flap to share a last look:<\/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=\"size-full wp-image-23528 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/The-Heart-of-Selling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/The-Heart-of-Selling.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/The-Heart-of-Selling-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/The-Heart-of-Selling-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Kennebunks, Jim and Rich Keating were masters of the lost art of friendly persuasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23529,"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":[8,1283],"tags":[1287],"class_list":["post-23527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-highlight-events","tag-september-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527","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=23527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23530,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527\/revisions\/23530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}