{"id":25801,"date":"2025-10-01T13:28:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25801"},"modified":"2025-10-01T13:34:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:34:37","slug":"10-places-where-you-can-hear-yourself-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/10-places-where-you-can-hear-yourself-think\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Places to Think"},"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=%23e5e5e5&amp;backgroundColorFullscreen=%23e5e5e5&amp;d=october_2025&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=40&amp;themeMainColor=%231a1a1a&amp;themeSecondaryColor=%23ffffff&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=\"p3\">A deliberator\u2019s guide.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p4\">By Nancy English<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><strong>No. 1<\/strong> Tuck yourself into the walled <strong>Longfellow Garden<\/strong> beside Maine Historical Society and behind the Wadsworth-Longfellow House to slow your breathing and think \u201clong, long thoughts.\u201d This is the spot that inspired Longfellow to write \u201cThe Rainy Day\u201d poem. Visit in the rain, sit under your umbrella, shiver along with the jostling leaves, and breathe in the washed air.<\/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-25802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/10-places.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/10-places.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/10-places-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/10-places-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>A Deliberator\u2019s Guide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25803,"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":[1500],"class_list":["post-25801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-october-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25801","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=25801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25829,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25801\/revisions\/25829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}