{"id":26519,"date":"2026-06-18T14:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=26519"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:57:17","slug":"hx-of-za-in-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/hx-of-za-in-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Hx of \u2019Za in ME"},"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=108&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\">Yes, because even slices of baked leavened dough have an origin myth.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">Interview by Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It\u2019s as unlikely for an origin story to be true as it is for a slice of pepperoni to realize it isn\u2019t a savory island surrounded by icebergs of cheese in a sea of tomato sauce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Angelone\u2019s<\/b> is the rare exception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It was and is <b>the first pizza shop <i>ever<\/i> in Maine<\/b>. Established in 1947 and constant as the North Star, the local chain survives in the form of Angelone\u2019s West at 768 Main Street in Westbrook.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/pizza.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/pizza.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/pizza-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/pizza-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>Pizza Legend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26520,"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":[1509],"class_list":["post-26519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-summerguide-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26519","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=26519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26522,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26519\/revisions\/26522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}