{"id":3869,"date":"2015-10-01T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T06:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2015-10-01T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T18:10:46","slug":"my-chat-with-ronald-l-smith-if-you-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3869","title":{"rendered":"My Chat with Ronald L. Smith, If You Didn&#8217;t Know &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/09\/RonaldLSmith-photo credit Erik Kvalsvikuse.jpeg\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">I &#8230; don\u2019t think we as writers should censor ourselves too much when it comes to scary stuff for kids. Everyone likes a good, scary story! These books also help kids learn about life and consequences and bravery. <\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t make the mistake of talking down to kids or trying to moralize. They can sniff it out miles away.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Supernatural Southern Gothic, anyone? Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk to debut author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangeblackflowers.com\/\">Ronald L. Smith<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about his new novel <em>Hoodoo<\/em>, released last month by Houghton Mifflin.  <\/p>\n<p>That conversation is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/ronald-l-smiths-magic-touch\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Erik Kvalsvik and used by permission of Ronald L. Smith.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I &#8230; don\u2019t think we as writers should censor ourselves too much when it comes to scary stuff for kids. Everyone likes a good, scary story! These books also help kids learn about life and consequences and bravery. But don\u2019t make the mistake of talking down to kids or trying to moralize. They can sniff [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","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=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}