{"id":3315,"date":"2014-02-06T13:24:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T19:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2014-02-06T13:24:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T19:24:13","slug":"all-exaggeration-must-be-restrictedto-the-first-twenty-four-hours-past-sunrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3315","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;All exaggeration must be restricted<br>to the first twenty-four hours past sunrise &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/Anne Isaacs-editedblog.JPG\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">What draws me is a sense of kinship: I like and understand people who venture out to do impossible things, and I feel a bond with those who cannot live without nature, raw and untamed. Those who have a bit of lake water in their veins.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I chat with picture book author and tall-tale queen, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anneisaacs.com\/\">Anne Isaacs<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Her newest book, illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinhawkes.com\/home.htm\">Kevin Hawkes<\/a><\/strong>, is <em>Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch<\/em> (Schwartz &#038; Wade, February 2014), and it&#8217;s funny stuff. <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/channeling-swagger-southern-tall-tale\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Next week, I hope to have art from the book to share. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo used by permission of Anne Isaacs.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What draws me is a sense of kinship: I like and understand people who venture out to do impossible things, and I feel a bond with those who cannot live without nature, raw and untamed. Those who have a bit of lake water in their veins.\u201d * * * Today over at Kirkus, I chat [&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-3315","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\/3315","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=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}