{"id":45914,"date":"2019-05-09T07:07:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=45914"},"modified":"2025-10-24T21:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:45:53","slug":"inspiration-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/inspiration-in-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration in Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spent a long weekend in Portland last weekend. The main reason was to see our son graduate. We didn&#8217;t do a lot of other stuff, but a little. I was able to see a couple of friends and do some sightseeing around downtown.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45917\" title=\"Books at Powell's\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190504_162948_wm574231028060915082.jpg\" alt=\"Books at Powell's\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190504_162948_wm574231028060915082.jpg 2250w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190504_162948_wm574231028060915082-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190504_162948_wm574231028060915082-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190504_162948_wm574231028060915082-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Books at Powell&#8217;s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of course we went to Powell&#8217;s! I saw the most amazing collection of books. They were informational and inspirational and slightly ominous looking. Of course, I wanted them all. I didn&#8217;t buy them, though since I have no shelf space. I will look for them at the library.<\/p>\n<p>SIL and I discussed a misguided family who paid $6 million to get their kid into Stanford. Thereafter, we had an ongoing discussion about what we would do if we won the lottery and had skads of money. We agreed that we would create an amazing library. SIL had the great idea to start a publishing company. I already have an idea for a book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent a long weekend in Portland last weekend. The main reason was to see our son graduate. We didn&#8217;t do a lot of other stuff, but a little. I was able to see a couple of friends and do some sightseeing around downtown. Of course we went to Powell&#8217;s! I saw the most amazing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/inspiration-in-portland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inspiration in Portland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[477],"tags":[319,557,346],"class_list":["post-45914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-inspiration","tag-oregon","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68425,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45914\/revisions\/68425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}