{"id":3463,"date":"2014-07-17T08:33:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T14:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2014-07-17T08:34:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T14:34:32","slug":"flop-sweat-and-butt-trampolines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3463","title":{"rendered":"Flop Sweat and Butt Trampolines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/sproko7post.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>This week over at the <em>Wild Things!<\/em> site, my co-author and I are doing the following: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taking a look at the phenomenon that is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/?p=169\">the author school visit<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; the good, the bad, and the ugly. (You&#8217;ll see, if you read this post over at <em>Wild Things!<\/em>, that the title of this post today here at 7-Imp tips its hat to that.)<\/li>\n<li>Asking whether or not <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/?p=167\">Beatrix Potter really yelled at young children<\/a><\/strong>. (The <em>Horn Book&#8217;s<\/em> Lolly Robinson gives us the low-down.)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/?p=486\">Udder Indecencies<\/a><\/strong> of one sort or another; or, The Saga of the Unobtrusive Monster Penis (pictured above).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tomorrow, we&#8217;ll have a post <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonard_Baskin\">Leonard Baskin<\/a><\/strong> fans, in particular, will appreciate. <\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, we&#8217;ll look at two of children&#8217;s literature&#8217;s most cryptic picture books. <\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, we&#8217;ll look at some true tales behind famous awards speeches. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my story, and I&#8217;m stickin&#8217; to it. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>The above image is used with permission of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1468\">Sergio Ruzzier<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week over at the Wild Things! site, my co-author and I are doing the following: Taking a look at the phenomenon that is the author school visit &#8212; the good, the bad, and the ugly. (You&#8217;ll see, if you read this post over at Wild Things!, that the title of this post today here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","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=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}