{"id":26362,"date":"2026-02-25T13:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=26362"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:29:07","slug":"dirt-road-to-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/dirt-road-to-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirt Road to Paradise"},"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=%23f2f2f2&amp;d=february_march_2026&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=82&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\">By Dan Warren<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Summer camps invite kids and adults to go into the hinterlands of Maine to see faraway places, and new ones. Meddybemps. Mooselookmeguntic. The Golden Road. Q.E.D.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">In 1959, my father built a camp for our family on Hancock Pond in Denmark near Sebago Lake. On one of the back roads was that road sign you see on gift shop postcards: nine or ten wooden slats with names shared by Maine towns and European destinations (Norway, Paris, Denmark, Naples, Sweden\u2026). Pretty cool to a seven-year-old.<\/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-26363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/camppic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/camppic.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/camppic-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/camppic-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>Summer Camp Kids<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26364,"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":[8,112],"tags":[1506],"class_list":["post-26362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-fiction","tag-february-march-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26362","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=26362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26365,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26362\/revisions\/26365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}