{"id":6342,"date":"2012-07-20T07:22:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=6342"},"modified":"2012-07-20T07:22:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T14:22:49","slug":"julyaugust-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/julyaugust-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"July\/August 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ja2012_cvr_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6343\" style=\"margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px;\" title=\"ja2012_cvr_sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ja2012_cvr_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a>Features<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>44\tFlashdance<\/strong><br \/>\nShips aren\u2019t the only things guided by our Fresnel lenses. It turns out our lighthouses attract dollars.<br \/>\n<em>By David Svenson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>53\t\tPocket Goddess<\/strong><br \/>\nThe original <em>Godspeed<\/em> may have dazzled Pocahontas, but her replica\u2019s a Maine girl, from Rockport.<br \/>\n<em>By Zoe Colton<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>55\t\tEvent Horizon<\/strong><br \/>\nIt\u2019s not every day a 1,092-foot aircraft carrier floats past your picture window.<br \/>\n<em>By Colin W. Sargent<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>63\t\tComing to Maine to Study Abroad<\/strong><br \/>\nMeet the perfect students. Can well-heeled international expats like Amin and Yalda Esmaielpour boost USM?<br \/>\n<em>By Cassandra Kane<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>69\t\tPicnic @ Griffin Rock<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Transformers<\/em>\u2019s executive producer Jeff Kline mixes business with pleasure in Cape Elizabeth.<br \/>\n<em>Interview by David Svenson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>75\t\tInside Scoop on Outliers Eatery<\/strong><br \/>\nA new restaurant is emerging on Portland\u2019s horizon, overlooking the Casco Bay Bridge.<br \/>\n<em>By Meagan Saville Riedmann<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Departments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18\tFrom the Editor<\/p>\n<p>20\tLetters<\/p>\n<p>22\tImperat\u00edfs<\/p>\n<p>24\tFestival Guide<br \/>\nSunday River\u2019s 13th Annual Wife Carrying Championship<\/p>\n<p>34\tGoings On<\/p>\n<p>40\tDiscover Bath\/Brunswick<\/p>\n<p>43\tChowder<\/p>\n<p>48\tWaterfront Adventures<\/p>\n<p>80\tDining Guide<\/p>\n<p>81\tRestaurant Review<em><br \/>\n<\/em>LFK<\/p>\n<p>83\tHouse of the Month<br \/>\nTwenty-two Summer Street, Kennebunk, home of painter, diarist, and world traveler Edith Cleaves Barry<\/p>\n<p>95\tNew England Homes &amp; Living<\/p>\n<p>109\tFiction<br \/>\n\u201cThe Windjammer Crew &amp; the God of Unopened Canned Goods\u201d<em><br \/>\nBy Kara Stockton <\/em><\/p>\n<p>112\t\tFlash<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Features 44 Flashdance Ships aren\u2019t the only things guided by our Fresnel lenses. It turns out our lighthouses attract dollars. By David Svenson 53 Pocket Goddess The original Godspeed may have dazzled Pocahontas, but her replica\u2019s a Maine girl, from Rockport. By Zoe Colton 55 Event Horizon It\u2019s not every day a 1,092-foot aircraft carrier [&hellip;]<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342","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=6342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6377,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342\/revisions\/6377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}