{"id":2051,"date":"2010-12-24T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T06:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2010-12-24T00:01:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T06:01:31","slug":"merry-christmas-eve-day-with-little-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas Eve Day with <em>Little Tree<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Little tree8_9a.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;who found you in the green forest \/ and were you very sorry to come away?&#8221;<\/center><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This October, Random House re-released the 1987 picture book adaptation of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E._E._Cummings\">e.e. cummings&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> poem, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetry-archive.com\/c\/little_tree.html\">&#8220;little tree,&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> illustrated by author and artist <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dkray.com\/\">Deborah Kogan Ray<\/a><\/strong>. (It was also released as a paperback edition in 1994.) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780517881781\">Here&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> the low-down. <\/p>\n<p>This re-printing makes me happy, as it&#8217;s always been one of my favorite holiday picture books. Today, Deborah is sharing two images from it, and I thank her. <\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas Eve from 7-Imp . . . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Little tree 6_7a.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<center><em>&#8220;little tree \/ little silent Christmas tree \/<br \/>you are so little \/ you are more like a flower&#8221;<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>LITTLE TREE. Text copyright \u00a9 1923 by e.e. cummings. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 1987 by Deborah Kogan Ray. Published by Random House, New York. Images reproduced with permission of the illustrator.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;who found you in the green forest \/ and were you very sorry to come away?&#8221; This October, Random House re-released the 1987 picture book adaptation of e.e. cummings&#8217;s poem, &#8220;little tree,&#8221; illustrated by author and artist Deborah Kogan Ray. (It was also released as a paperback edition in 1994.) Here&#8217;s the low-down. This re-printing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","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=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}