{"id":3855,"date":"2015-09-17T12:07:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T18:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2015-09-17T12:07:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T18:07:03","slug":"some-gregarious-art-before-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3855","title":{"rendered":"Some Gregarious Art Before Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/09\/DSC08645agreg.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><center>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\"><font size=2>Three years &#8230; of blood, sweat, and tears, which aren\u2019t always my own. There\u2019s too much to write in terms of what I\u2019ve learned, but at the end of the day I know that I feel free,<br \/>and we\u2019re doing something that helps people.\u201d<\/font><\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/center><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nThis morning over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I talk to author-illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1553\">R. Gregory Christie<\/a><\/strong> about his new picture book, as well as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gas-art.com\/about-the-store\/\">GAS-ART GIFTS<\/a><\/strong> (&#8220;Gregarious Art Statements&#8221;), what he&#8217;s referencing in the quote above &#8212; the bookstore and art studio he opened in Decatur, Georgia, about three years back. <\/p>\n<p>That link is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/making-creative-discoveries-r-gregory-christie\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of R. Gregory Christie used by his permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Three years &#8230; of blood, sweat, and tears, which aren\u2019t always my own. There\u2019s too much to write in terms of what I\u2019ve learned, but at the end of the day I know that I feel free,and we\u2019re doing something that helps people.\u201d &nbsp; This morning over at Kirkus, I talk to author-illustrator R. Gregory [&hellip;]<\/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-3855","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\/3855","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=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}