{"id":198,"date":"2006-09-28T08:11:56","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T15:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=198"},"modified":"2006-09-28T10:17:36","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T17:17:36","slug":"last-night-i-dreamed-of-a-childrens-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Last night I dreamed of a children&#8217;s poet laureate . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image199\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/prelutsky.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"prelutsky.gif\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image200\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/cathedral.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"cathedral.gif\" \/> . . . oh, and some <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/15576\">chickens<\/a><\/strong>, too.<\/p>\n<p>Devoted blog reader, if you will allow us to wander from a book review one more time this week, we just must announce that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/poetryfoundation.org\/\">The Poetry Foundation<\/a><\/strong> made their decision yesterday and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/poetryfoundation.org\/features\/feature.children.html?id=178694\">chose Jack Prelutsky<\/a><\/strong> as the country&#8217;s first ever Children&#8217;s Poet Laureate. Yes, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=172\">first ever<\/a><\/strong>. This is right up there with the day that <em>The New York Times<\/em> finally created the bestseller list in children&#8217;s books. (Arguably, this is much bigger news; but it&#8217;s pretty rad that children&#8217;s lit is gettin&#8217; the attention it deserves).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re announcing momentous events in the realm of children&#8217;s literature, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macfound.org\/site\/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH\/b.2070789\/apps\/nl\/content2.asp?content_id=%7B956CCD18-8768-44B2-9F19-0998EF94C9DC%7D&#038;notoc=1\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> that David Macaulay, children&#8217;s book author\/illustrator, has been named a 2006 MacArthur Fellow, the so-called genius awards. He&#8217;s in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macfound.org\/site\/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH\/b.2066197\/k.3F6D\/2006_Overview.htm\">good company<\/a><\/strong>, it seems, and he&#8217;s ever-so worthy.<\/p>\n<p>Now back to our regularly-scheduled book reviewing, I promise . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . oh, and some chickens, too. Devoted blog reader, if you will allow us to wander from a book review one more time this week, we just must announce that The Poetry Foundation made their decision yesterday and chose Jack Prelutsky as the country&#8217;s first ever Children&#8217;s Poet Laureate. Yes, first ever. This [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","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=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}