{"id":137,"date":"2006-08-29T13:43:40","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T20:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=137"},"modified":"2007-01-26T23:08:14","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T04:08:14","slug":"never-leave-your-cat-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Never leave your cat alone . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image136\" height=96 alt=parker.gif src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/parker.thumbnail.gif\" \/>I heard it&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmgworldwide.com\/music\/parker\/index.php\">Charlie Parker&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> birthday, so here&#8217;s a quick shout-out for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyopolis.com\/portfolio-dbp.asp?ArtistID=299\">Chris Raschka&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> wonderful picture book <em>Charlie Parker Played Be Bop<\/em> (1992). The text has an infectious rhythm, and Raschka&#8217;s energetic, vivacious illustrations amaze, as usual (and Raschka is our <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/alsc\/awardsscholarships\/literaryawds\/caldecottmedal\/caldecottmedal.htm\">most recent Caldecott Award winner<\/a><\/strong>); it&#8217;s jazz on the pages of a book (with a recurring line being the title of this post). Your favorite toddler will likely enjoy it, too, even if not familiar with jazz. I promise. But do yourself a favor, too, and read this one. Happy birthday, Charlie, who played that mess just like it didn&#8217;t mean a thing, ya&#8217;ll. I think I&#8217;ll listen to some jazz today in honor . . . <\/p>\n<p>(Whew. See, I really <em>can<\/em> write a short post) . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard it&#8217;s Charlie Parker&#8217;s birthday, so here&#8217;s a quick shout-out for Chris Raschka&#8217;s wonderful picture book Charlie Parker Played Be Bop (1992). The text has an infectious rhythm, and Raschka&#8217;s energetic, vivacious illustrations amaze, as usual (and Raschka is our most recent Caldecott Award winner); it&#8217;s jazz on the pages of a book (with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","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=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}