{"id":2437,"date":"2012-10-04T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T06:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2437"},"modified":"2012-10-04T06:42:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T12:42:06","slug":"a-chat-with-picture-book-author-lauren-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2437","title":{"rendered":"A Chat with Picture Book Author Lauren Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Lauren portrait 2012d.jpg\">This morning over in <em>Kirkus&#8217;<\/em> Book Blog Network, I chat with author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenthompson.net\/\">Lauren Thompson<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about her latest picture book. <\/p>\n<p>Lauren has written many picture books over the years that I&#8217;ve enjoyed &#8212; and shared with my own children. Her forthcoming book is called <em>The Forgiveness Garden<\/em>, and it&#8217;s illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/christyhale.com\/'\">Christy Hale<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>The Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/blog\/childrens\/lauren-thompson-look-not-war-or-peace-forgiveness\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> this morning, and next week here at 7-Imp I&#8217;ll follow up with a few more questions and responses from Lauren, as well as some more art from Christy. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: Carol Stevens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning over in Kirkus&#8217; Book Blog Network, I chat with author Lauren Thompson, pictured here, about her latest picture book. Lauren has written many picture books over the years that I&#8217;ve enjoyed &#8212; and shared with my own children. Her forthcoming book is called The Forgiveness Garden, and it&#8217;s illustrated by Christy Hale. 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-2437","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\/2437","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=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}