{"id":24715,"date":"2024-08-30T08:28:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T12:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=24715"},"modified":"2024-08-30T08:28:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T12:28:04","slug":"star-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/star-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Power"},"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=%23dcdcdc&amp;d=issuu.com&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=12&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<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Portland High School<\/strong> has at least two legendary graduates from the Class of 1873: Polar explorer Admiral Robert E. Peary and noted architect John Calvin Stevens. Imagine them sitting side by side in geography class. They\u2019re not just \u2018almost famous\u2019! Which brings us to legendary Hollywood director John Ford (<i>The Searchers<\/i>). According to the <i>Los Angeles Times<\/i>, \u201cafter graduating from Portland High School in 1914 and being rejected by the U.S. Naval Academy, he boarded a train to California.\u201d The rest is up on the big screen.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Portland High School has at least two legendary graduates from the Class of 1873: Polar explorer Admiral Robert E. Peary and noted architect John Calvin Stevens. Imagine them sitting side by side in geography class. They\u2019re not just \u2018almost famous\u2019! Which brings us to legendary Hollywood director John Ford (The Searchers). According to the [&hellip;]<\/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":[1408],"class_list":["post-24715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-september-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715","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=24715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24753,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715\/revisions\/24753"}],"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=24715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}