{"id":1016,"date":"2007-11-16T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T06:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2007-11-20T13:22:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T19:22:41","slug":"blogging-for-a-cure-day-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"Blogging for a Cure, Day 33"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/biggs1.jpg\">Below is today&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmyfund.org\/eve\/event\/roberts-snow\/view-snowflakes-online.html\">Robert&#8217;s Snow<\/a><\/strong> schedule. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/beastly1.jpg\">Pictured here is an &#8217;07 snowflake which was not on the initial list and so not covered by a blogger in the Blogging for a Cure effort. I&#8217;m happy to be able to feature it. It was created by multi-media artist and illustrator and animator and comic book artist (whew, busy man) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mrbiggs.com\/\">Brian Biggs<\/a><\/strong>, and it&#8217;s entitled &#8220;Ice Skater&#8217;s Waltz&#8221; (for sale in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kintera.org\/faf\/auction\/auctionIndex.asp?ievent=247264&#038;lis=1&#038;kntae247264=05C91BB8CA6E49EB939924BE49C884D7\">Auction 2<\/a><\/strong>). The auction site states: &#8220;{Brian&#8217;s} past lives include those of an art director, professor, competitive accordion player, and television personality.&#8221; Brian most recently illustrated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Beastly-Beast-Inventors-Fantastic\/dp\/0060843195\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1195157186&#038;sr=8-1\"><strong><em>One Beastly Beast: Two Aliens, Three Inventors, Four Fantastic Tales<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garthnix.co.uk\/\">Garth Nix<\/a><\/strong> (Eos) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Camp-Out-Ultimate-Kids-Guide\/dp\/0761141227\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1195157267&#038;sr=1-1\"><strong><em>Camp Out!: The Ultimate Kids&#8217; Guide<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Lynn Brunelle (Workman Publishing Company), both published this past summer. How did I miss that first one? It looks particularly interesting. <\/p>\n<p>If you missed them, you can read yesterday&#8217;s features <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1015\">here<\/a><\/strong>. My fun fact for the day was learning that illustrator Mary Newell DePalma, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wildrosereader.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/roberts-snow-starring-mary-newell.html\">as featured by Elaine Magliaro<\/a><\/strong>, used to work as a sign language interpreter, as did I. Who knew? <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?page_id=935\">this page<\/a><\/strong> where all the features are being compiled in one spot. <\/p>\n<p>Here is today&#8217;s schedule: <\/p>\n<p><center><font size=4><strong><em>Friday, November 16, 2007:<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryhaverfield.com\/\"><strong>Mary Haverfield<\/strong><\/a>, featured by Paula Willey at <a href=\"http:\/\/yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/roberts-snow-illustrator-profile-mary.html\"><strong><em>Your Neighborhood Librarian<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisakopelke.com\/\">Lisa Kopelke<\/a><\/strong>, featured by Lisa Schroeder at <a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-schroeder.livejournal.com\/164152.html\"><strong><em>Lisa&#8217;s Little Corner of the Internet<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Salley Mavor, featured by Liz Dubois at <a href=\"http:\/\/studiodubois.com\/liz\/blog\/?p=472\"><strong><em>ChatRabbit<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregnewbold.com\/\">Greg Newbold<\/a><\/strong> featured at <a href=\"http:\/\/thelongstockings.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/roberts-snow-greg-newbold.html\"><strong><em>The Longstockings<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/home.earthlink.net\/~saydow\/\">Elizabeth Sayles<\/a><\/strong>, featured by Gina Ruiz at <a href=\"http:\/\/ginasblogging.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/sayle-away-on-snowflake-with.html\"><strong><em>AmoXcalli<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cuentesitos.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/sayle-away-on-snowflake-with.html\"><em><strong>Cuentecitos<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is today&#8217;s Robert&#8217;s Snow schedule. Pictured here is an &#8217;07 snowflake which was not on the initial list and so not covered by a blogger in the Blogging for a Cure effort. I&#8217;m happy to be able to feature it. It was created by multi-media artist and illustrator and animator and comic book artist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-snow-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}