{"id":3786,"date":"2015-07-09T06:24:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T12:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2015-07-09T10:43:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T16:43:51","slug":"globe-hopping-with-the-lewins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3786","title":{"rendered":"Globe-Hopping with the Lewins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/07\/Ted and Betsy Lewinforpost.JPG\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">As children we were both fascinated by a book called <\/em>I Married Adventure<em> by Osa Johnson. It&#8217;s about her and her husband Martin&#8217;s travels to wild places around the world. We both aspired to their kind of life, and our childhood dreams came true. Our book is the culmination of all our travels. &#8230; We wanted to make this a true representation of what it felt like to be in these places. It would be less than honest if we made all our adventures look like a piece of cake.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betsylewin.com\/\">Betsy<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedlewin.com\/\">Ted Lewin<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about their new book, <em>How to Babysit a Leopard: And Other True Stories from Our Travels Across Six Continents<\/em> (Neal Porter Books\/Roaring Brook, June 2015). <\/p>\n<p>That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/beaten-path-lewins\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Next week, I&#8217;ll have a few of the watercolors from the book. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of the Lewins used by their permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As children we were both fascinated by a book called I Married Adventure by Osa Johnson. It&#8217;s about her and her husband Martin&#8217;s travels to wild places around the world. We both aspired to their kind of life, and our childhood dreams came true. Our book is the culmination of all our travels. &#8230; We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-blogger-interviews","category-nonfiction","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","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=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}