{"id":2549,"date":"2013-04-16T07:19:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T13:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2013-04-16T07:19:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T13:19:18","slug":"an-emotional-yet-hopeful-parable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2549","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;[A]n emotional, yet hopeful, parable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes here at <em>7-Imp<\/em> I write about books well before their release date. In early January of this year, I <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/high-octane-visual-poetry-bob-staake\/\">chatted briefly at <em>Kirkus<\/em><\/a><\/strong> (where this post&#8217;s title comes from) with author\/illustrator Bob Staake about several things, including his new picture book, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780375870378\">Bluebird<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, released just last week. After I chatted with him, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2499\">he stopped by here<\/a><\/strong> to share a few sketches. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t tend to post reminders that a book has come out, but I am today. Because <em>Bluebird<\/em> will go down, if all is right in the world, as one of this year&#8217;s best picture books. Below is the trailer. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobstaake.com\/bluebirdbook\/1.shtml\">Here&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> some great process info at his website. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GFWahrCXulk?list=UU9LvODN4v9P3dxwOIYlBULA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes here at 7-Imp I write about books well before their release date. In early January of this year, I chatted briefly at Kirkus (where this post&#8217;s title comes from) with author\/illustrator Bob Staake about several things, including his new picture book, Bluebird, released just last week. After I chatted with him, he stopped by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","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=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}