{"id":1418,"date":"2008-08-19T08:18:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T14:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2008-08-19T08:20:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T14:20:46","slug":"for-your-listening-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"For Your Listening Pleasure&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=93699480\"><strong>A fabulous conversation<\/strong><\/a> with Walter Dean Myers&#8212;and his work with teens&#8212;at NPR this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The kids were writing such negative stuff about themselves that I began to collect photographs to show how beautiful they actually were,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I used the photographs in a number of different books.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Myers also looks back to when he was a young man in Harlem who knew he wanted to write &#8212; and meeting Langston Hughes for the first time. Having studied only white, British writers in schools, he tells NPR&#8217;s Juan Williams, &#8220;He didn&#8217;t look to me like a writer because he wasn&#8217;t white.&#8221; &#8230;It&#8217;s a great piece. Enjoy. <\/p>\n<p>Now back to your regularly scheduled blog-reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fabulous conversation with Walter Dean Myers&#8212;and his work with teens&#8212;at NPR this morning: &#8220;The kids were writing such negative stuff about themselves that I began to collect photographs to show how beautiful they actually were,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I used the photographs in a number of different books.&#8221; Myers also looks back to when he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera","category-young-adult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","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=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}