{"id":80457,"date":"2025-08-19T17:39:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80457\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T17:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:39:04","slug":"field-day-books-bottles-opens-in-ne-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80457\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Day Books &#038; Bottles opens in NE Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Bookstore bookshelf with &quot;very hype!&quot; sign\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GRV3ISWCQNDILHGELJHRGMICIU.JPG\" \/>Field Day Books &amp; Bottles is a queer-owned bookstore that encourages customers to seek out new experiences.Kitty McLeod-Martinez<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MPV54A2DYZEGDO45RZ73J7R2WA\">It\u2019s been nearly a decade since Kitty McLeod-Martinez and Alec Ballweg met in the Rose Room at Powell\u2019s Books, where they worked together. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"R3VP4PWX4RC65DYWQS3TXI6KB4\">They stayed friends even while pursuing non-literary careers \u2014 McLeod-Martinez as an art studio manager, Ballweg as a project manager for various nonprofits \u2014 and through it all, held on to the shared dream of one day starting a shop of their own. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Field Day Books &amp; Bottles is a queer-owned bookstore that encourages customers to seek out new experiences.Kitty McLeod-Martinez&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134],"class_list":["post-80457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}