{"id":3592,"date":"2014-11-27T09:59:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2014-11-27T13:32:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T19:32:15","slug":"star-stuff-with-stephanie-roth-sisson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3592","title":{"rendered":"<em>Star Stuff<\/em> with Stephanie Roth Sisson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/11\/bwstephanierothsissonforpost.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">Carl Sagan was prolific. He used to walk around with one of those tape recorders that had a strap and a microphone on a cord and record ideas when they came to him. Ideas just poured out of the guy. I love that image of him wandering around with this, recording his thoughts about this and that. I had many of [his] books to draw on, as well as television, radio, and print interviews. Mostly, I was looking for material that would capture the feeling that he left his audience with &#8212; that feeling of wonder and wanting to explore and find out more. \u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I chat with author-illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephroth.com\/Stephanie_Roth_Sisson\/Home.html\">Stephanie Roth Sisson<\/a><\/strong>, pictured above, about <em>Star Stuff<\/em>, her new picture book biography of Carl Sagan. <\/p>\n<p>That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/capturing-carl-sagans-vision-cosmos\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>, and next week I&#8217;ll have some art from the book here at 7-Imp. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Stephanie Roth Sisson used by her permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Carl Sagan was prolific. He used to walk around with one of those tape recorders that had a strap and a microphone on a cord and record ideas when they came to him. Ideas just poured out of the guy. I love that image of him wandering around with this, recording his thoughts about this [&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-3592","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\/3592","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=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}