{"id":25616,"date":"2025-06-20T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T16:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25616"},"modified":"2025-06-25T08:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:37:09","slug":"grace-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/grace-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Notes"},"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=230&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\">A romantic retreat on <strong>Penobscot Bay<\/strong> is nearly an island unto itself.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">Story by Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cTwenty years ago, I was part of a musical trio, Cat\u2019s Paw,\u201d says John Oldham. \u201cIt\u2019s a sailing term\u201d for a pretty disturbance on the water where the wind kisses a patch of blue. \u201cIt was quite the Islesboro gig. One night, we were playing at <strong>Grace Cottage<\/strong> when Alex Trebek strode across the lawn. He was quite friendly, and we joked with him.\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-25617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/TalkingWalls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/TalkingWalls.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/TalkingWalls-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/TalkingWalls-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>Romantic Retreat\/Poodle Palace <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25618,"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":[8,224],"tags":[1497],"class_list":["post-25616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-talking-walls","tag-summerguide-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25616","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=25616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25664,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25616\/revisions\/25664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}