{"id":26420,"date":"2026-05-01T10:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=26420"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:50:17","slug":"may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2026"},"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;\" title=\"May 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23f5f5f5&amp;d=may_2026&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&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<h2 class=\"p1\">Openings<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>11 \u201cPick-up lines\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<i> By Colin W. Sargent<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>13 Letters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>15<i> <\/i> Chowder<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p2\">Exclusive<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>17 \u201cFound in Translation\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>By Amelia Bodge<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>25<i> <\/i>\u201cCoffee Shop Hop\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<i> By Briana Bononcini <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>26<i> <\/i>\u201cNever Enough\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<i> By Amelia Bodge<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>33<i> <\/i>\u201cWe Heart the boys of Maine\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<i> By Meaghan Maurice<\/i><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p2\">Crushes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>43<i> <\/i>\u201cSoft Geography\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<i> By Colin W. Sargent<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>48 On the Water<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>58 Get Out!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>68 MADE in Maine<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Last Words<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p4\">96<i> <\/i>\u201cCROWDSOURCING<br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>AS SUMMER SPORT\u201d<br \/>\n<i> By Dan Warren<\/i><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Shelter<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>79<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cLost Diamond\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<i> By Amelia Bodge<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>84 Home show<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>89 HOMES &amp; LIVING<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p2\">Street<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>57 \u201cHigh tide, Tall Tales\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<i> By Amelia Bodge<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>73 \u201cOur Epicureal <i>Querencia <\/i>\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<i> By Diane Hudson<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>77 fine dining<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26421,"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":[10],"tags":[1508],"class_list":["post-26420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toc","tag-may-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26420","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=26420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26426,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26420\/revisions\/26426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}