{"id":2383,"date":"2012-07-04T08:16:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T14:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2012-07-04T08:16:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T14:16:28","slug":"someone-please-light-a-sparkler-for-meis-gonna-be-the-name-of-my-next-country-ballad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2383","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Someone Please Light a Sparkler for Me&#8221;<br>is Gonna Be the Name of My Next Country Ballad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an idea for a 4th of July celebration: Grab your favorite child to curl up and read <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bryancollier.com\/\">Bryan Collier&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> picture book adaptation of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Langston_Hughes\">Langston Hughes&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> iconic poem, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/15615\">&#8220;I, Too, Sing America<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221; This morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I chat briefly with Bryan about it. Next week at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll have one more spread from the book.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Kirkus<\/em> link is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/blog\/childrens\/celebrate-4th-july-i-too-sing-america\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so hot and dry in middle Tennessee that we are banned from the use of fireworks, so someone please light a sparkler for me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an idea for a 4th of July celebration: Grab your favorite child to curl up and read Bryan Collier&#8217;s picture book adaptation of Langston Hughes&#8217;s iconic poem, &#8220;I, Too, Sing America.&#8221; This morning over at Kirkus, I chat briefly with Bryan about it. Next week at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll have one more spread from the [&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-2383","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\/2383","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=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}