{"id":25445,"date":"2025-03-27T13:48:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25445"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:48:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:48:43","slug":"portland-and-her-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/portland-and-her-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland and Her Sisters"},"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=82&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\">\u201cI\u2019m walking on air!\u201d<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>\u2014Michael Caine in <em>Hannah and Her Sisters<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><b>By Colin W. Sargent<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Lisa Drew and Reeven Elfman went to Bates College together. \u201cWe were in the same class and graduated in the same year.\u201d But they didn\u2019t date. \u201cWe\u2019d recognize each other on campus, wave, and say hi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">Twenty years later, Drew, a senior health leader at Maine Health Maine Medical Center, bumped into Elfman when she was scheduled to deliver a lecture at a medical conference in Chicago where he was working. For the next nine years or so, they kept up with each other.<\/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-25447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PortlandandherSisters-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PortlandandherSisters-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PortlandandherSisters-1-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/PortlandandherSisters-1-480x251.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>Where West Meets Danforth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25446,"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-25445","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\/25445","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=25445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25467,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25445\/revisions\/25467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}