{"id":25419,"date":"2025-03-27T13:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25419"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:49:43","slug":"thoreau-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/thoreau-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoreau Back"},"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=%23d5d5d5&amp;d=portland_magazine_april_2025&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=30&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\">The writer we wish we knew.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">By Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One of the oldest tropes in Maine is to stalk Henry David Thoreau\u2019s excursions through the Maine Woods and try to channel him, preferably while roughing it in a 21st-century wilderness resort with views of Moosehead Lake, sipping coffee (or cognac) in front of the fire. Well, surprise: we haven\u2019t changed, but <i>he<\/i> has. Meet the Thoreau you never knew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Thoreau expert Laura Dassow Walls, PhD, author of <em>Henry David Thoreau, A Life<\/em> (University of Chicago Press), has volunteered to take us closer.<\/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-25420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Thoreau-Back.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Thoreau-Back.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Thoreau-Back-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Thoreau-Back-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 Man We Never Knew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25421,"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":[1495],"class_list":["post-25419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-april-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25419","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=25419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25461,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25419\/revisions\/25461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}