{"id":2509,"date":"2013-02-07T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T06:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2013-02-08T12:52:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T18:52:55","slug":"happy-50th-amelia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2509","title":{"rendered":"Happy 50th, Amelia &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I chat with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herman_Parish\">Herman Parish<\/a><\/strong>. Herman is the nephew of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peggy_Parish\">Peggy Parish<\/a><\/strong>, the creator of the character Amelia Bedelia. Greenwillow\/HarperCollins recently reissued Amelia&#8217;s first-ever tale, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Amelia-Bedelia-Fiftieth-Anniversary-Edition\/dp\/0062209698\">Amelia Bedelia<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, pictured below, published in 1963 and illustrated by Fritz Siebel. This 50th anniversary edition is filled with back matter about Parish and Siebel and the book&#8217;s creation, even including images of the book in its dummy stage. (I&#8217;ll have more on that next week here at 7-Imp). <\/p>\n<p>The Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/happy-50th-amelia-bedelia\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> today. Enjoy. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/amelia cover1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today over at Kirkus, I chat with Herman Parish. Herman is the nephew of Peggy Parish, the creator of the character Amelia Bedelia. Greenwillow\/HarperCollins recently reissued Amelia&#8217;s first-ever tale, Amelia Bedelia, pictured below, published in 1963 and illustrated by Fritz Siebel. This 50th anniversary edition is filled with back matter about Parish and Siebel and [&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-2509","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\/2509","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=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}