{"id":3953,"date":"2015-12-24T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T06:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2015-12-25T13:24:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T19:24:58","slug":"what-im-doing-at-kirkus-this-week-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=3953","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m Doing at <em>Kirkus<\/em> This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2015\/12\/the-wolf-wilder-cover.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nI write about picture books for <em>Kirkus<\/em>, but sometimes &#8230; well, you read a children&#8217;s novel so great that you ditch your plans and write about that novel instead. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing today over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, writing about Katherine Rundell&#8217;s <em>The Wolf Wilder<\/em>. That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/book-youll-howl\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>And, because freelance writing deadlines don&#8217;t stop for the holidays, I&#8217;ll have a column up over there tomorrow about my favorite Christmas picture books &#8212; one is a long-time favorite (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Burningham\">Burningham!<\/a><\/strong>), and the other is an older one I just discovered this year. That will be <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/merry-christmas-harvey-and-arthur\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>See you Sunday! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I write about picture books for Kirkus, but sometimes &#8230; well, you read a children&#8217;s novel so great that you ditch your plans and write about that novel instead. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing today over at Kirkus, writing about Katherine Rundell&#8217;s The Wolf Wilder. That is here. * * * And, because freelance writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","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=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}