{"id":25258,"date":"2025-01-10T12:26:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T17:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25258"},"modified":"2025-01-10T12:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T17:26:43","slug":"what-drives-richard-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/what-drives-richard-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"What Drives Richard Ford"},"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=74&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>Will he find the perfect Maine setting?<\/h3>\n<p>Interview by Tess Davis<\/p>\n<p>After spending years in Montana and Louisiana, Pulitzer prizewinner Richard Ford and his wife Kristina sold their saltwater home on Linekin Bay in Boothbay. In 2023 his latest novel, Be Mine, sent him \u201cchasing the book around the world.\u201d So why are they house-hunting back in Maine again? Here are some of his thoughts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I hear that you are house-hunting, moving back to Maine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We are because I like it, and so does my wife. She\u2019ll outlive me, so she should be in a place she likes.<br \/>\nWhen do your best ideas come to you?<\/p>\n<p>I like quiet, and I\u2019ve discovered that my mind is the best in the morning.<\/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-25284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RichardFord.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RichardFord.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RichardFord-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/RichardFord-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>A Life in Words<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25285,"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":[1493],"class_list":["post-25258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-winterguide-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25258","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=25258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25303,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25258\/revisions\/25303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}