{"id":25244,"date":"2025-01-10T12:26:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25244"},"modified":"2025-01-10T12:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T17:26:30","slug":"celebrating-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/celebrating-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 40 Years!"},"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=%23dddddd&amp;d=wg25_issuu.com&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=14&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\">When we dreamed up <em>Portland Monthly <\/em>magazine in 1985, we started at 638 Congress Street in the Lafayette Building. Next stop was 154 Middle Street in the Old Port. At our opening party, which spread to Cavanagh\u2019s, the pub next door, a daily reporter from the <em>Evening Express<\/em><span class=\"s1\"> slid into my usual booth. \u201cThis all looks great, Colin. My only question is, what do you do the other 29 days?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">As you\u2014our readership\u2014grew, we bought and renovated 578 Congress Street at the top of Forest Avenue. In the 1990s, Z.Z. Top floated in for a chat. So did rocker Bebe Buell. The late Stan Bennett buttonholed me in our lobby as I walked in: \u201cJust tell me, Colin, where did Oakhurst Dairy finish in The Maine 100?\u201d My answer then, as it would be now: \u201cYou\u2019ll believe it when you see it in print.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40 and Beyond!<\/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":[1493],"class_list":["post-25244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-winterguide-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25244","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=25244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25292,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25244\/revisions\/25292"}],"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=25244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}