{"id":2575,"date":"2013-05-30T07:10:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T13:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2013-05-30T07:11:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T13:11:34","slug":"catching-up-with-john-rocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2575","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up with John Rocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/rocco029aaaz.jpg\">Here&#8217;s author\/illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2143\">John Rocco<\/a><\/strong> as a child. You can see that he and his barber weren&#8217;t super tight. <\/p>\n<p>But you never know about big hair: It <em>could<\/em> be concealing superpowers.  <\/p>\n<p>Today I chat with John at <em>Kirkus<\/em> about life post-Caldecott Honor, as well as his two new picture books, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781423121893\">Super Hair-o and the Barber of Doom<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (just released from Disney\/Hyperion and which he both wrote and illustrated) and Jason Carter Eaton&#8217;s <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780763663070\">How to Train a Train<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, coming from Candlewick this Fall. <\/p>\n<p>Next week here at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll have some art from John. <\/p>\n<p>The Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/john-roccos-illustrating-superpowers\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s author\/illustrator John Rocco as a child. You can see that he and his barber weren&#8217;t super tight. But you never know about big hair: It could be concealing superpowers. Today I chat with John at Kirkus about life post-Caldecott Honor, as well as his two new picture books, Super Hair-o and the Barber of [&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-2575","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\/2575","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=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}