{"id":2733,"date":"2010-07-16T06:40:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T13:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2010-07-21T09:05:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T16:05:38","slug":"lobster-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/lobster-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobster King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July \/ August 2010<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/pdf\/John%20King.pdf\">download this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span>CNN anchor <strong>John King<\/strong> raps about pizza-filled power outages, denting trees with skis, and making his point with a bucket of lobsters.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span>By John King<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span><strong>Maine is one of the jewels of the earth and one of my favorite places to visit.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2736\" style=\"margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px;\" title=\"johnking_cnn-gary-landsman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/johnking_cnn-gary-landsman.jpg\" alt=\"johnking_cnn-gary-landsman\" width=\"300\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/johnking_cnn-gary-landsman.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/johnking_cnn-gary-landsman-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Professionally, it\u2019s on the cutting edge of our politics; look at how more and more people are saying they resist the two-party system and wish people\u2013and politicians\u2013would be more pragmatic and less ideological. Well, that\u2019s a big piece of Maine\u2019s political culture, from [independent-thinking governors] to two Republican senators who often are critical to big national debates. I traveled [to Maine] in September 2009 for [CNN\u2019s] <em>State of the Union<\/em>, and hearing independents raise so many questions about the Democratic health-care plan was a good lesson in where the national debate was going. I borrowed a bucket of lobsters to make a point about the political breakdown\u2013perhaps my favorite low-tech graphics, ever!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Personally, I love the ocean and rugged terrain, so Maine has long been a favorite. I dented a few trees skiing in Bethel during my years in high school and have always enjoyed the coastal areas. A few years back, I drove from Burlington across Vermont and into Maine and ultimately down to Boston on a two-week trip to show my children the best of New England. While in Bar Harbor there was a power outage, and I remember Rosalie\u2019s Pizza patiently staying open and feeding people (gas ovens!) and everyone just having that \u201cso-it-goes, might-as-well-make-it-an-adventure\u201d attitude. Plus, while Fenway is heaven on earth, going to see the Sea Dogs and getting a glimpse of a replica of the Green Monster is a great treat. And the Maine microbrews are a special [addition] to the ball-game experience! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"return addthis_sendto()\" onmouseover=\"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')\" onmouseout=\"addthis_close()\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;pub=portmag\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/about\/contact-us\">send us your comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July \/ August 2010<br \/>\nCNN anchor John King raps about pizza-filled power outages, denting trees with skis, and making his point with a bucket of lobsters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","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=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2860,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}