{"id":26443,"date":"2026-05-01T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=26443"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:50:12","slug":"soft-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/soft-geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft Geography"},"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=%23f9f9f9&amp;d=may_2026&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=44&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=\"p1\">These forgotten neighborhoods are like blue highways, but closer.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">By Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">San Francisco may have its Nob Hill and Barbary Coast, Manhattan its Murray Hill, Tudor City, and Gramercy, but here in Portland and South Portland, a number of sweet old neighborhoods with well-laundered place names guide us to our softer selves. To know them is to love our home better. Not to mention, they\u2019re actually still on the map. Your navigation app will take you there. But they\u2019re also an exhalation from the past, a bit ghostly. Easy to overlook, they\u2019re where the 21st century double-parks its cars with understated charm on tree-lined streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><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-26444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/portland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/portland.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/portland-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/portland-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>Forgotten Neighborhoods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26445,"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":[1508],"class_list":["post-26443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-may-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26443","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=26443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26470,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26443\/revisions\/26470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}