{"id":2365,"date":"2012-06-08T06:51:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T12:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2012-06-08T06:52:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T12:52:44","slug":"what-i%e2%80%99m-doing-at-kirkus-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2365","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Doing at <em>Kirkus<\/em> Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/elisha cooper11.jpg\">This morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I chat with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elishacooper.com\/\">Elisha Cooper<\/a><\/strong> (pictured here from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1442\">my 2008 7-Imp interview<\/a><\/strong>) about <em>Homer<\/em>, his newest picture book and one of my favorite picture books of 2012 thus far. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a brief excerpt: <\/p>\n<p><em>\u200e&#8221;When I was painting the book, I\u2019m sure I was thinking about my daughters. They were heading off to summer camp before returning to me at the end of their day. But in some larger sense, I knew they were also heading off into their lives. This letting-go stuff still sort of kills me. But I know it\u2019s important. If we create space for those we love, then love will come into that space.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/blog\/childrens\/painting-homer-talk-elisha-cooper\/\">Here&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> the rest. <\/p>\n<p>As always, next week here at <em>7-Imp<\/em>, I&#8217;ll have some more art from it. <\/p>\n<p>Until next time &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning over at Kirkus, I chat with Elisha Cooper (pictured here from my 2008 7-Imp interview) about Homer, his newest picture book and one of my favorite picture books of 2012 thus far. Here&#8217;s a brief excerpt: \u200e&#8221;When I was painting the book, I\u2019m sure I was thinking about my daughters. They were heading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","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=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}