{"id":6204,"date":"2012-07-20T07:18:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=6204"},"modified":"2012-07-20T07:18:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:18:47","slug":"event-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/event-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July\/August 2012<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>How can you top celebrating your 85th birthday by skydiving? You celebrate your 88th birthday by levitating to the Navy\u2019s new carrier that bears your name.<\/h3>\n<p>By Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p>As summer rushed into Kennebunkport, so did the Navy\u2019s newest nuclear carrier. Named for former-President George Herbert Walker Bush (41), the $6.2 billion warship, anchored barely two miles off Walker\u2019s Point, provided a startling backdrop for the lobster boats\u00a0dotting the coast here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/pdf\/Event%20Horizon.pdf\">View this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/event.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6273\" title=\"event\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/event.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/event.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/event-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July\/August 2012<br \/>\nHow can you top celebrating your 85th birthday by skydiving? You celebrate your 88th birthday by levitating to the Navy\u2019s new carrier that bears your name.<\/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-6204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204","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=6204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6372,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions\/6372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}