{"id":25456,"date":"2025-03-27T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25456"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:21:08","slug":"bluebirds-snowbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/bluebirds-snowbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluebirds, Snowbirds"},"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=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=\"p3\">Growing up in Portland, I never saw a bluebird. Poor Colin! The way I heard it, they got tired of the cold weather and flew away forever. The last straw, they say, was the dag-blasted winter of 1895.<br \/>\nWalking to Chapman School every morning, my heart went out to the disappeared ones. Why did you forsake us? Where, oh where did you go?<br \/>\nI heard bluebirds, though, in the form of the Bluebird Records my father sometimes put on the hi-fi: Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington. Billie Holiday, singing for Shaw, swept the year 1938 away with her adorable \u201cAny Old Time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 2025<\/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":[1495],"class_list":["post-25456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-april-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25456","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=25456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25457,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25456\/revisions\/25457"}],"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=25456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}