{"id":24516,"date":"2024-07-30T11:04:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T15:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=24516"},"modified":"2024-07-30T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:07:13","slug":"strangers-in-a-strange-land-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/strangers-in-a-strange-land-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangers in a Strange Land"},"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=%23dadada&amp;d=issuusmaller&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=20&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>`<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Here\u2019s the conventional wisdom:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cIn Maine\u2019s chilly waters, you\u2019ll find lobsters and seals, but not brain or star coral. These corals thrive in warm, tropical seas, needing temperatures above 20\u00b0C (68\u00b0F). Maine\u2019s cold waters, around 10\u00b0C (50\u00b0F), slow the photosynthesis vital for these corals. Additionally, Maine\u2019s murky, nutrient-rich waters and rocky seabed hinder their growth. So, try as you might, you won\u2019t find coral on the beaches of Maine. This absence highlights the unique environmental needs of these corals, shaped by the delicate balance of marine factors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July\/August 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20249,"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":[1346],"class_list":["post-24516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-july-august-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24516","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=24516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24553,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24516\/revisions\/24553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}