{"id":3942,"date":"2015-12-10T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T06:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2015-12-10T12:34:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T18:34:40","slug":"a-conversation-with-ozge-samanci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3942","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with \u00d6zge Samanci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/12\/\u00d6zge-Samanci-photo-credit-Shirley-Adamsuseforpost.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">I was afraid of making this book. It was perfect in my mind. I did not want to try and ruin it. But the idea was burning in me. &#8230; Living with a book in my mind that long was painful. It was like dragging a heavy suitcase wherever you go.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nToday over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I talk to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordinarycomics.com\/portfolio\/\">\u00d6zge Samanci<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about her debut book, the graphic memoir <em>Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/reliving-childhood-ozge-samanci\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> today, and next week here at 7-Imp I&#8217;ll follow up with some art from \u00d6zge&#8217;s book.  <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of \u00d6zge Samanci taken by Shirley Adams and used by permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I was afraid of making this book. It was perfect in my mind. I did not want to try and ruin it. But the idea was burning in me. &#8230; Living with a book in my mind that long was painful. It was like dragging a heavy suitcase wherever you go.\u201d &nbsp; Today over at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-nonfiction","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942","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=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}