{"id":23868,"date":"2023-11-30T13:07:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T18:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=23868"},"modified":"2023-11-30T13:07:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T18:07:53","slug":"porpus-delicti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/porpus-delicti\/","title":{"rendered":"Porpus Delicti"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position:relative;padding-top:max(60%,326px);height:0;width:100%\"><iframe allow=\"clipboard-write\" 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=\"true\" 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=%23e6e6e6&#038;d=dec23_flipbook&#038;hideIssuuLogo=true&#038;pageNumber=14&#038;u=portlandmagazine\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Who doesn\u2019t love the name Cape Porpoise? Schoolchildren believe the fanciful tale that our sweet coastal village was named in 1614 by the British explorer (made newly relevant through Walt Disney animation) Captain John Smith in honor of the cetacean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">But why didn\u2019t Smith call it Cape Dolphin after the mammal that shares that order along with whales (the killer whale is a member of the dolphin family)? Look a real porpoise in the eye. You\u2019re in for a shock if you\u2019re expecting a dolphin double.<\/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>December 2023<\/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":[1290],"class_list":["post-23868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-december-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23868","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=23868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23911,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23868\/revisions\/23911"}],"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=23868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}