{"id":26483,"date":"2026-06-18T12:47:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=26483"},"modified":"2026-06-18T12:47:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:47:56","slug":"under-the-bridge-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/under-the-bridge-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Under  the Bridge Table"},"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=\"Summerguide 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColorFullscreen=&amp;d=summerguide_2026&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=18&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\">Kennebunkport novelist <b>Margaret Deland<\/b> was a member of my grandmother\u2019s summer bridge club, where at the drop of a hatpin the card games were suspended and an occasional s\u00e9ance broke out. When I was arranging books in our family cottage library at Gooch\u2019s Beach, a letter from Margaret dated December 27, 1936, fluttered to the floor.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summerguide 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":[1509],"class_list":["post-26483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor","tag-summerguide-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26483","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=26483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26484,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26483\/revisions\/26484"}],"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=26483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}