{"id":431,"date":"2005-02-17T17:34:36","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T17:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=431"},"modified":"2005-02-17T17:34:36","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T17:34:36","slug":"portland_the_hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/portland_the_hi\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland, the &#8216;High On Life&#8217; tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It all started with the shuttle ride from the Portland airport to the rental car &#8216;base&#8217;.&nbsp; Our 60-year old hippie driver was nothing if not &#8216;high on life&#8217;.&nbsp; The weather was spectacular, crisp, clear, not a cloud in the sky.&nbsp; This seemed to amaze him beyond belief, and his cheerfulness was infectious, if only tempered somewhat by him constantly craning his head back to chat with a co-worker on the shuttle, instead of keeping his eye on the road.<\/p>\n<p>We kept the happiness going with excellent appetizers at a downtown resto-lounge called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saucebox.com\/\">&#8216;The Saucebox&#8217;<\/a>.&nbsp; Along with a couple of imaginative martinis, we slurped up some impeccably fresh albacore tuna sashimi, and ahi poke, a traditional Hawaiian marinated fish dish, enlivened with hot chili, lemon and lime juice and a crisp seaweed cracker.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner followed at Pazzo in the Hotel Vintage Plaza, a very, very good Italian meal.&nbsp; More to follow&#8230;here&#8217;s a pic of the chefs:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/chefs_at_pazzo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Chefs_at_pazzo\" height=\"60\" alt=\"Chefs_at_pazzo\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/chefs_at_pazzo.jpg\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> But right now we are at Cannon Beach on the coast.&nbsp; Eat your hearts out!&nbsp; <a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/cannon_beach_sunset.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cannon_beach_sunset\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Cannon_beach_sunset\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/cannon_beach_sunset.JPG\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all started with the shuttle ride from the Portland airport to the rental car &#8216;base&#8217;.&nbsp; Our 60-year old hippie driver was nothing if not &#8216;high on life&#8217;.&nbsp; The weather was spectacular, crisp, clear, not a cloud in the sky.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/portland_the_hi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}