{"id":3700,"date":"2015-03-19T07:50:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T13:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2015-03-19T21:23:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T03:23:22","slug":"a-conversation-with-kimberly-brubaker-bradley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3700","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with Kimberly Brubaker Bradley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/03\/Kimberly-Brubaker-Bradley-photo-credit-is-Katie-Bradleyuse.jpg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">It&#8217;s really hard for me to say where this story came from. It&#8217;s not like any of my other novels. I was researching first-person accounts of World War II and the homefront in England, and the child evacuations always interested me, but Ada herself seemed to spring out of nowhere &#8212; and then Susan, and then Jamie. I had arguments with Jamie in my dreams. This one was somehow buried in my subconscious.&#8221;<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get back to picture books tomorrow, but over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today I talk to author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimberlybrubakerbradley.com\/\">Kimberly Brubaker Bradley<\/a><\/strong> about her newest children&#8217;s novel, <em>The War That Saved My Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/life-behind-war\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<em>Photo of Kimberly taken by Katie Bradley and used by permission of the author.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really hard for me to say where this story came from. It&#8217;s not like any of my other novels. I was researching first-person accounts of World War II and the homefront in England, and the child evacuations always interested me, but Ada herself seemed to spring out of nowhere &#8212; and then Susan, and [&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-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","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=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}