{"id":26423,"date":"2026-05-01T10:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=26423"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:51:59","slug":"pick-up-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/pick-up-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick-Up Lines"},"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;pageNumber=12&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=\"p1\">ONE night, I was falling asleep to <i>Perry Mason<\/i> when he picked up his office phone. I woke to: \u201cOperator, get me CRestview 7-6245.\u201d Did that ever ring a bell!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">My old number was SPruce 2-4449. For the in-crowd who lived in the Forest City, that meant 772-4449.<br \/>\nDidn\u2019t we save scads of time not having to say \u201c77\u201d whenever we gave out our number! It got my generation where it deserves to be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I pick up my cell phone and call my friend, screenwriter Brian Daly. Surely he\u2019s one of the Children of the SPruce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2026<\/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":[1508],"class_list":["post-26423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-may-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26423","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=26423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26429,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26423\/revisions\/26429"}],"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=26423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}