{"id":3673,"date":"2015-02-18T08:09:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2015-02-18T11:07:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T17:07:27","slug":"the-real-world-at-a-45-degree-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3673","title":{"rendered":"The Real World at a 45-Degree Angle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/02\/Archeruse.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>See that post title? It&#8217;s a phrase that illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nicholasjgannon.com\/\">Nicholas Gannon<\/a><\/strong> once used when he visited 7-Imp back in 2011. (I&#8217;m fond of the phrase.) Back then, Nicholas was an unpublished author-illustrator, but now he&#8217;ll see the publication this year (later in the Fall) of his first illustrated children&#8217;s novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780062320940\"><strong><em>The Doldrums<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (Greenwillow). I find this exciting. <\/p>\n<p>Today, in honor of this news, I&#8217;m sharing a few peeks inside the book. Be sure to visit <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2177\">that 2011 post<\/a><\/strong>, if you&#8217;re so inclined, to see even more art from Nicholas. In fact, you can read there the genesis of this book; it all started with <em>The Doldrums Press<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>Congrats to Nicholas!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/02\/The Trio.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/02\/The Triosmall.jpg\" border=1><\/a><br \/>\n<center><em>(Click to enlarge)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/02\/Adelaide Balletsmall.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/02\/Doldrums hc finaluse.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>THE DOLDRUMS. Copyright \u00a9 2015 by Nicholas Gannon. Illustrations reproduced by permission of the publisher, Greenwillow\/HarperCollins, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See that post title? It&#8217;s a phrase that illustrator Nicholas Gannon once used when he visited 7-Imp back in 2011. (I&#8217;m fond of the phrase.) Back then, Nicholas was an unpublished author-illustrator, but now he&#8217;ll see the publication this year (later in the Fall) of his first illustrated children&#8217;s novel, The Doldrums (Greenwillow). I find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673","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=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}