{"id":2055,"date":"2010-12-31T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T06:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2010-12-31T20:21:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T02:21:25","slug":"raymond-briggs-meets-quentin-tarantino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2055","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Briggs Meets Quentin Tarantino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I decided at the last minute to post some holiday illustrations and managed to get a few up. I have two more to throw into the mix, one for today and one for tomorrow. Short and sweet. Not the trilogy that yesterday&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2053\">7-Imp recap post<\/a><\/strong> is. <\/p>\n<p>This one actually comes by way of an agent, the agent of Ohio author\/illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamfwatkins.com\/\">Adam Watkins<\/a><\/strong>. This image comes from a work-in-progress title of his, his next project and first children&#8217;s book, <em>Christmas Ninja Attack!<\/em> Head on over to Adam&#8217;s site for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamfwatkins.com\/bio\">more information<\/a><\/strong> and more art. <\/p>\n<p>If you were to ask me how heartily I laughed when I first saw this, the answer would be very. Enjoy. And here&#8217;s hoping you still have some snow&#8212;but no shuriken-wielding, snowman-defeating mercenaries of feudal Japan&#8212;in your backyard. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Xmas Ninja.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Xmas Ninja1.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge.)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Image copyright \u00a9 2010 by Adam Watkins. Reproduced by permission of Joanna Volpe, Nancy Coffey Literary &#038; Media Representation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I decided at the last minute to post some holiday illustrations and managed to get a few up. I have two more to throw into the mix, one for today and one for tomorrow. Short and sweet. Not the trilogy that yesterday&#8217;s 7-Imp recap post is. This one actually comes by way of [&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-2055","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\/2055","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=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}