{"id":289,"date":"2015-11-21T21:35:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T19:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/?p=289"},"modified":"2015-11-21T21:35:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T19:35:19","slug":"portland-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Portland Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4939.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP4939.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4939.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can&#39;t stop taking pictures of these marquee signs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NOV 13, 2015 &#8211; I spent four days in Portland and stayed with Matty and Kimberly, whom I met on my US roadtrip in spring 2011. Portland was interesting to me because of its open-minded people, high density of microbreweries, large cultural offering, and because it is reportedly a hipster capital. The city is a lot smaller than Boston, but nevertheless I was glad to have a bicycle because most of the interesting places are not in the center. One of the most inspiring things is the &#8220;City Repair&#8221; movement, where people break the city anonymity by creating meeting spaces at street intersections in their neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>PS: Sorry for the late post, I had to recover some of my photos from a corrupted memory card and still have a bit of a processing backlog.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4765.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP4765.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4765.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Powell&#39;s City of Books<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4816.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP4816.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4816.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of many vintage\/hipster gear stores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4832.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP4832.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4832.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from near Mount Tabor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4893.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP4893.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4893.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A food truck park (Portland is full of these)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4909.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP4909.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4909.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Share-it Square on Sherrett Ave (hot water refilled daily!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4915.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP4915.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4915.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Playground at Share-it Square<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4902.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP4902.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4902.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free Geek - second-hand computer store and volunteer-run repair workshop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4962.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP4962.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4962.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two-level steel bridge (bike lanes on both levels!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4880.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP4880.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4880.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4798.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMGP4798.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-imgp4798.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurelhurst, one of many historic movie theaters in the city<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOV 13, 2015 &#8211; I spent four days in Portland and stayed with Matty and Kimberly, whom I met on my US roadtrip in spring 2011. Portland was interesting to me because of its open-minded people, high density of microbreweries, large cultural offering, and because it is reportedly a hipster capital. The city is a<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/?p=289\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awayfrom.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}