{"id":3905,"date":"2015-10-29T10:39:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T16:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2015-10-29T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T16:46:17","slug":"of-moons-and-magic-with-melanie-crowder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3905","title":{"rendered":"Of Moons and Magic with Melanie Crowder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/10\/Melanie Crowder Author Photoforpost.jpeg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">I was &#8230; rolling around the idea of negative emotions&#8212;grief, regret, shame&#8212;and how we allow them to form the walls that imprison us. <\/p>\n<p>I wondered what that prison might look like if it were a tangible thing &#8212; and how a person would ever find their way free.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I chat with author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/melaniecrowder.net\/\">Melanie Crowder<\/a><\/strong> today over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> about her new middle-grade novel, <em>A Nearer Moon<\/em> (Atheneum, September 2015). <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/melanie-crowders-magic-touch\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo taken by Tiffany Crowder and used by permission of Melanie.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I was &#8230; rolling around the idea of negative emotions&#8212;grief, regret, shame&#8212;and how we allow them to form the walls that imprison us. I wondered what that prison might look like if it were a tangible thing &#8212; and how a person would ever find their way free.\u201d * * * I chat with author [&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-3905","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\/3905","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=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}