{"id":3530,"date":"2014-09-25T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T06:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2014-09-25T20:44:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T02:44:44","slug":"an-arabesque-of-wings-with-christopher-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3530","title":{"rendered":"An Arabesque of Wings with Christopher Myers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“I was a dancer just like you \/ a dreaming shooting star of a girl \/
with work and worlds ahead”<\/em>
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\nSince I chatted here<\/a><\/strong> last week with Misty Copeland<\/a><\/strong> and Christopher Myers<\/a><\/strong> about Firebird<\/em>, their new picture book from Putnam, I thought I’d follow up today with some of Chris’ art from the book. <\/p>\n

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“darling child, don’t you know \/ you’re just where I started \/
let the sun shine on your face \/ your beginning’s just begun”<\/em>
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“before the fireworks of costumes \/ before before it all”<\/em>
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“even birds must learn to fly \/ like me, you’ll grow steady in grace \/
spread an arabesque of wings \/ and climb”<\/em>
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“you will soar \/ become a swan, a beauty, a firebird for sure \/
soon with the same practice \/ you’ll join me \/ in this dancing dream”<\/em>
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\nFIREBIRD. Text copyright \u00a9 2014 by Misty Copeland. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2014 by Christopher Myers. Spreads reproduced by permission of the publisher, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I was a dancer just like you \/ a dreaming shooting star of a girl \/with work and worlds ahead”(Click to enlarge spread)   Since I chatted here last week with Misty Copeland and Christopher Myers about Firebird, their new picture book from Putnam, I thought I’d follow up today with some of Chris’ art […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","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=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}