{"id":6956,"date":"2012-10-31T07:32:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T14:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=6956"},"modified":"2012-10-31T07:32:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T14:32:57","slug":"working-class-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/working-class-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Working-Class <em>Hero<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 2012<\/p>\n<h2>Greetings from the bottom of the world!<\/h2>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<h3>Before she\u2019s lost to decay on the West Coast, former Antarctica researchers in Maine want to save their storied <em>Hero<\/em>.<\/h3>\n<p>By David Svenson<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<p>In 1968, as the 125-foot research vessel <em>Hero<\/em> slipped into the waters off South Bristol, the shakedown crew had no idea that after two decades of polar exploration, <em>Hero<\/em> would be left to the ebb and flow of a mucky Washington-state inlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s just moored there at the dock in Bay Center, sitting in the mud,\u201d says Charles Lagerbom, Northport, Maine, resident and president of the Antarctican Society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/pdf\/Working-Class%20Hero.pdf\">view this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/HERO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6957\" title=\"HERO\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/HERO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/HERO.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/HERO-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 2012<br \/>\nBefore she\u2019s lost to decay on the West Coast, former Antarctica researchers in Maine want to save their storied <em>Hero<\/em>.<\/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-6956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956","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=6956"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6987,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions\/6987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}