{"id":3763,"date":"2015-06-11T08:07:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T14:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2015-06-11T08:07:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T14:07:40","slug":"exploring-the-skies-with-uma-krishnaswami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3763","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Skies with Uma Krishnaswami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/06\/Uma-Krishnaswami-no-photo-creditz.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">The picture book is such a fabulous form! The great joy of writing picture book text is that I can hold the whole idea in my mind at once, all the way through the process of writing and rewriting. It\u2019s like working with a small jewel.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<BR&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nToday over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I talk with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/umakrishnaswami.org\/\">Uma Krishnaswami<\/a><\/strong> about writing picture books, her teaching, and her newest book, <em>Bright Sky, Starry City<\/em>, illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aimeesicuro.com\/\">Aim\u00e9e Sicuro<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/skys-limit\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>, and I will have some art from the book next week here at 7-Imp. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center> <\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Uma is used by her permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The picture book is such a fabulous form! The great joy of writing picture book text is that I can hold the whole idea in my mind at once, all the way through the process of writing and rewriting. It\u2019s like working with a small jewel.\u201d<\/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-3763","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\/3763","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=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}