{"id":3497,"date":"2014-08-21T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T06:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3497"},"modified":"2014-08-21T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T17:45:35","slug":"peter-brown-is-a-monster-before-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3497","title":{"rendered":"Peter Brown is a Monster Before Breakfast &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/08\/PB-Monster2useforpost.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Well, not really, even if he&#8217;s illustrated himself as one here. <\/p>\n<p>First up, sorry for my silence this week, but the blog has been undergoing some much-needed maintenance. As my husband put it, there are something like 28,000 images in one folder where my site is hosted, and &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe that your site hasn&#8217;t already had a fit and gone boom.&#8221; (Notice his wording, and that&#8217;s because I always have to request that he explain this tech stuff as if I&#8217;m two years old.) <\/p>\n<p>Okay. Where was I? &#8230; Yes, today I&#8217;m chatting with author-illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1920\">Peter Brown<\/a><\/strong> over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>. And that&#8217;s because I think his brand-new picture book, <em>My Teacher is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.)<\/em>, is very funny. (Given the book&#8217;s title, you can see now why he has illustrated himself in such a manner.) <\/p>\n<p>So, we chat&#8212;the link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/teachers-are-people-too\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>&#8212;and then next week at 7-Imp I&#8217;ll follow up with some sketches and art and even deleted scenes from Peter. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Illustration of Peter Brown copyright \u00a9 2014 and used by his permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not really, even if he&#8217;s illustrated himself as one here. First up, sorry for my silence this week, but the blog has been undergoing some much-needed maintenance. As my husband put it, there are something like 28,000 images in one folder where my site is hosted, and &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe that your site hasn&#8217;t [&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-3497","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\/3497","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=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}