{"id":3615,"date":"2014-12-25T12:24:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T18:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2014-12-25T12:24:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T18:24:43","slug":"making-history-come-alive-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3615","title":{"rendered":"Making History Come Alive at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2014\/12\/John-Hendrix-photo-credit-is-Kevin-Robertspost.jpg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">Getting a kid to say <\/em>&#8216;this person who lived a hundred years ago is basically just like me&#8217;<em> is a wonderful thing to take away from a war story a century ago.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>If freelance writing deadlines don&#8217;t stop for the holidays, the least I can do is tell you about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2338\">John Hendrix&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> new picture book, all about the true story of a 1914 Allied-German Christmas truce on the front lines during World War I. It&#8217;s called <em>Shooting at the Stars: The Christmas True of 1914<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have art from the book at 7-Imp soon &#8212; maybe even this Sunday. For now, I talk to John, pictured here, about the book over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, a hundred years after the events themselves. <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/when-war-takes-holiday\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas, all! <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of John used with his permission and taken by Kevin Roberts.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Getting a kid to say &#8216;this person who lived a hundred years ago is basically just like me&#8217; is a wonderful thing to take away from a war story a century ago.\u201d * * * If freelance writing deadlines don&#8217;t stop for the holidays, the least I can do is tell you about John Hendrix&#8217;s [&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-3615","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\/3615","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=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}