{"id":3688,"date":"2015-03-05T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T06:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2015-10-17T19:09:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T01:09:52","slug":"victoria-jamieson-and-roller-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3688","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Jamieson and <em>Roller Girl<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/03\/AuthorPhoto_VictoriaJamieson_highResfor post.jpg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">The issue of friendships ending was certainly central for me, and it was the concept I was most interested in exploring in the book. Although the details of the story are different, the heart of the issue&#8212;the pain of a slipping friendship&#8212;was from my own experience.&#8221;<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I have a back-and-forth with author-illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoriajamieson.com\/\">Victoria Jamieson<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about her first graphic novel for children, <em>Roller Girl<\/em>, which will be on shelves next week &#8212; and which is really good.<\/p>\n<p>That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/rolling-victoria-jamieson\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p>Next week, I&#8217;ll have some art from the book, as well as some early sketches and such. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<em>Photo of Victoria taken by Herminio Jacome and used by permission of the author.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The issue of friendships ending was certainly central for me, and it was the concept I was most interested in exploring in the book. Although the details of the story are different, the heart of the issue&#8212;the pain of a slipping friendship&#8212;was from my own experience.&#8221; * * * Over at Kirkus today, I have [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688","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=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}