{"id":23812,"date":"2023-10-27T16:46:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T20:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=23812"},"modified":"2023-10-27T16:46:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T20:46:30","slug":"knack-for-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/knack-for-networking\/","title":{"rendered":"Knack for Networking"},"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=%23eeeeee&amp;d=nov23_flipbook_single_pages&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=44&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\">\u200b\u200b<\/span>Rose Barboza\u2019s brainchild Black Owned Maine proves that bringing people<br \/>\ntogether is good business.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">Interview By Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong>If your life were a movie, how would Black Owned Maine unfold onscreen? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">It was June 1, 2020. Protests over George Floyd\u2019s murder were taking place all across the state; more than 1,000 people were in Monument Square alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">So it wasn\u2019t just an inciting incident; it was a national catastrophe. Where exactly were you standing when the idea came to you?<\/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-23813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/KnackforNetworking_1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/KnackforNetworking_1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/KnackforNetworking_1024x536-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/KnackforNetworking_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>Rose Barboza connects with Black Owned Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23814,"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":[1289],"class_list":["post-23812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-november-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23812","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=23812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23815,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23812\/revisions\/23815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}