{"id":25601,"date":"2025-06-20T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25601"},"modified":"2025-06-20T12:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:03:31","slug":"a-little-night-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/a-little-night-music\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Night Music"},"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=%23dbdbdb&amp;d=summerguide_2025&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=148&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\">Your Guide to This Summer\u2019s Stars.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Story by John Haley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">It\u2019s 4:30 a.m., and I can\u2019t sleep. I roll out of bed, put some clothes on, and step outside to watch the <i>Earth move<\/i>. Most of the year, in the pre-dawn darkness, I can look above the pine tree in my neighbor\u2019s yard and see Polaris. On this day in late July, however, while the Sun hasn\u2019t risen, it\u2019s too bright to make it out. It\u2019s there, though. It always is. Unlike every star in the sky, Polaris doesn\u2019t appear to move; everything moves around it. Because it\u2019s directly above the North Pole, it holds a constant place in our sky, day or night. While throughout the dark I can watch the Big Dipper spin on the record of the sky around it (or more correctly recognize that I\u2019m on the turntable of the Earth), I know this bright morning that the point of the North Star is in the same spot it always is and that the other stars are making circular paths around it.<\/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-25602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ALittleNightMusic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ALittleNightMusic.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ALittleNightMusic-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ALittleNightMusic-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>Stars of Summer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25603,"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":[1497],"class_list":["post-25601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-summerguide-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25601","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=25601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25638,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25601\/revisions\/25638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}