{"id":3824,"date":"2015-08-20T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T06:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2015-08-20T11:38:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T17:38:55","slug":"katherine-applegate-my-kirkus-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3824","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Applegate: My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/08\/Katherine Applegateuseforpost.jpg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">I don\u2019t think there are many middle-grade children\u2019s books that talk about the &#8216;working poor&#8217; &#8212; about the stresses that come when parents juggle multiple low-paying jobs and there still isn\u2019t enough food on the table or maybe even a place to call home. Children may not know what being &#8216;food insecure&#8217; means, but they understand much more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to money.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk to author <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/K._A._Applegate\">Katherine Applegate<\/a><\/strong> about her new middle-grade novel, <em>Crenshaw<\/em> (Feiwel and Friends), coming to shelves next month.  <\/p>\n<p>That conversation is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/celebrating-friends-unseen-katherine-applegate\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Katherine used by her permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t think there are many middle-grade children\u2019s books that talk about the &#8216;working poor&#8217; &#8212; about the stresses that come when parents juggle multiple low-paying jobs and there still isn\u2019t enough food on the table or maybe even a place to call home. Children may not know what being &#8216;food insecure&#8217; means, but they [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-blogger-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824","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=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}