{"id":24735,"date":"2024-08-30T09:14:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T13:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=24735"},"modified":"2024-08-30T09:14:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T13:14:24","slug":"wheels-no-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wheels-no-heels\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheels, \u200b\u200bNo Heels"},"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=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=\"p4\">These local businesswomen hit the floor\u2014literally\u2014when they\u2019re not crashing into each other.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p5\">Story by Clif Travers<\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\">If you\u2019ve seen the documentary <i>Minnesota Mean (2023) <\/i>or the film <i>Whip It <\/i>(2009)<i>, <\/i>you might think that roller derbies are all about girls getting aggressive and getting even. Little do you know. <strong>Sticky Situation<\/strong>\u2014aka <strong>Catia Cunha<\/strong>, age 31\u2014is the head of public relations at <strong>Maine Roller Derby<\/strong> (MRD) and a department coordinator at <strong>Bowdoin College\u2019s Office of Annual Giving<\/strong>. She thinks it\u2019s more about sisterhood and the power of women. \u201cWe\u2019re like a family. Even when we lose, we hang out with the opposing team, have some drinks, and share some roller-disaster stories. It\u2019s intense. Sometimes, we get hurt during the bouts, but we\u2019re all sisters in the end.\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-24736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Roller-Derby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Roller-Derby.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Roller-Derby-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Roller-Derby-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>Rolling Women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24737,"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-24735","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\/24735","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=24735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24755,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735\/revisions\/24755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}