{"id":2623,"date":"2013-08-22T07:26:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T13:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2013-08-23T07:19:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:19:50","slug":"poetry-is-the-chisel-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Poetry is the chisel of language&#8221; &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/yeswearelatinoscover.JPG\"><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I chat with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/almaflorada.com\/\">Alma Flor Ada<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/isabelcampoy.com\/\">F. Isabel Campoy<\/a><\/strong> about <em>Yes! We Are Latinos<\/em> (Charlesbridge, August 2013), illustrated by David Diaz, a series of narrative poems about the various ways Latinos and Latinas in this country celebrate their heritage. <\/p>\n<p>Next week here at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll have some illustrations from the book. <\/p>\n<p>The Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/celebrating-latinidad\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Kirkus today, I chat with Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy about Yes! We Are Latinos (Charlesbridge, August 2013), illustrated by David Diaz, a series of narrative poems about the various ways Latinos and Latinas in this country celebrate their heritage. Next week here at 7-Imp, I&#8217;ll have some illustrations 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":[3,12,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books","category-young-adult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","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=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}