{"id":6960,"date":"2012-10-31T07:32:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=6960"},"modified":"2012-10-31T07:32:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T14:32:33","slug":"a-real-cliffhanger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/a-real-cliffhanger\/","title":{"rendered":"A Real Cliffhanger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 2012<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<h3>Here\u2019s a spot where James Bond\u00a0would take his martini.<\/h3>\n<p>By Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<p>If you were a former Special Forces operative who\u2019d founded a geothermal firm that made you well, let\u2019s just say, comfortable, where on the Maine coast would you choose to locate your ultra-high-tech hideaway?<\/p>\n<p>So often the most defendable positions\u2013perched on cliffs, facing the sea\u2013have been snapped up by forts. This private residence is nothing less than \u201ca stunning\u00a0architectural composition of wood, copper, stone, glass, and steel, with soaring window walls framing awe-inspiring panoramic oceanfront vistas,\u201d according to Sotheby\u2019s listing agent Linda Briggs. Here, above the boom of the surf, when you take a deep breath of the salt air, prepare to be shaken and stirred. In spite of its impossibly meditative geographic advantages, it\u00a0whispers with the kind of understatement that\u2019s only possible when the most skilled artisans are involved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/pdf\/A%20Real%20Cliffhanger.pdf\">view this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/HOM-Cliffhanger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6961\" title=\"HOM-Cliffhanger\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/HOM-Cliffhanger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/HOM-Cliffhanger.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/HOM-Cliffhanger-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 2012<br \/>\nHere\u2019s a spot where James Bond would take his martini.<\/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-6960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960","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=6960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6986,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions\/6986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}