{"id":23702,"date":"2023-09-28T14:21:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=23702"},"modified":"2023-10-03T14:01:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T18:01:03","slug":"red-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/red-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hands"},"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=%23e3e3e3&amp;d=_oct23_flipbook&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=106&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\">Iordana Ceausescu, an impossibly privileged member of the Romanian Nomenclatura, hides here in Maine in the aftermath of the bloody revolution.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Prologue<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Portland, Maine, USA<br \/>\n<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Truth lies at the bottom of the well<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">TIRES SCREECHED on the usually quiet street. A car door slammed. I pushed myself away from my desk and wheeled to the library window. An intruder with a knitted cap pulled low blew past the gate and started up the brick walkway. I headed toward the stairwell and leaned over the banister, trying to gauge if I could duck this fresh hell. He rattled the door knob and with cupped hands peered into the sidelight. As he banged the glass, a Rolex flashed on his wrist. Late forties, roughly five-ten, dark curls brushing the collar of his fitted leather jacket like a 1960s movie star. His jawline was vaguely familiar, the extravagant watch a dead giveaway. The former race driver Catalin Tutunaru wasn\u2019t going to be put off.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cColin. I know you\u2019re in there. Your car is in the driveway.\u201d\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-23725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/RedHands_1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/RedHands_1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/RedHands_1024x536-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/RedHands_1024x536-480x251.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>Iordana Ceausescu hides here after the bloody revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23726,"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],"tags":[1288],"class_list":["post-23702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-october-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23702","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=23702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23782,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23702\/revisions\/23782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}