{"id":25294,"date":"2025-01-10T12:27:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T17:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25294"},"modified":"2025-01-10T12:27:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T17:27:53","slug":"heaven-in-harpswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/heaven-in-harpswell\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaven in Harpswell"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"p2\">This Quonset idyll is the first of three dreams within reach.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><i>From Staff &amp; Wire Reports<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">This house \u201cstarted out as a big tent platform. We just wanted to get away for the weekend, and then we thought, why don\u2019t we put something on it?\u201d says owner Carrie Burnsteel about her Quonset hut. \u201cIt took us three weekends to build it. The first arch was 40 feet and 240 pounds. My husband, teenage son, his friend, and I put it up together.\u201d Presto! A Birch Island sanctuary. \u201cGetting away from it all while still being so close to Portland is amazing.\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-25295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HeavininHarpswell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HeavininHarpswell.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HeavininHarpswell-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/HeavininHarpswell-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>Affordable Dreams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25296,"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-25294","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\/25294","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=25294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25297,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25294\/revisions\/25297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}