{"id":26014,"date":"2025-11-03T11:25:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=26014"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:25:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:25:45","slug":"intriguing-mainers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/intriguing-mainers\/","title":{"rendered":"Intriguing Mainers"},"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=%23efefef&amp;d=november_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=\"p2\">Let\u2019s adopt a new standard. It\u2019s high time we did. If you identify with Maine, you\u2019re one of us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Beyond that, are we intriguing because of who we are or where we\u2019re from? Naturally, we\u2019re geographically fascinating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Maine is the capital of Parts Unknown. We\u2019re the home of Everyone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">What can we learn from characters whose backstories suggest they\u2019re Mainers? Big dreamers, warm hearts. Independence is the feather in our cap.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 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":[1502],"class_list":["post-26014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-november-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26014","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=26014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26015,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26014\/revisions\/26015"}],"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=26014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}