{"id":24721,"date":"2024-08-30T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=24721"},"modified":"2024-08-30T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T13:14:10","slug":"aged-in-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/aged-in-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Aged in Wood"},"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=52&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\">A life in the grain.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">Story by Clif Travers<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u201cWhat you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.\u201d<br \/>\n<span class=\"s1\">\u2014<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> Richard Powers,<\/span> <span class=\"s2\"><em>The Overstory<\/em><i> \u2018<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Sculptor Travis Bullard listens to trees. \u201cThey\u2019re still alive, long after they appear to be dead,\u201d he says. \u201cI don\u2019t start out knowing what to carve. The wood tells me what it should be. I just listen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AgedinWood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AgedinWood.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AgedinWood-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AgedinWood-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>The Art of Trees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24723,"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":[1408],"class_list":["post-24721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-september-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721","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=24721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24756,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24721\/revisions\/24756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}