{"id":4150,"date":"2016-09-15T07:43:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T13:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2016-09-15T07:44:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T13:44:06","slug":"living-long-and-prospering-in-the-world-of-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4150","title":{"rendered":"Living Long and Prospering in the World of the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/09\/Michelson-and-Nimoy-at-Nimoy's-80th-birthdayuse.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/09\/Edel-Rodriguezuse.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">When I speak to children or to aspiring authors, I always advise them to listen carefully when their parents and grandparents and best friends and best friend\u2019s parents talk about their lives. \u2018Everyone has a story to tell,\u2019 I say. \u2018Just remember to write it down.\u2019 And yet why did it never occur to me to write down Leonard\u2019s story?\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk to author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2011\">Richard Michelson<\/a><\/strong>, quoted above (and pictured above, with Leonard Nimoy), about <em>Fascinating<\/em>, his new picture book biography of Leonard Nimoy (Knopf, September 2016). Illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/edelr.com\/\">Edel Rodriguez<\/a><\/strong> also joins us. Born in Cuba, Rodriguez (pictured right) came to America in 1980 during the Mariel boatlift and learned English from, partly, watching <em>Star Trek<\/em> with his cousins. <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/fascinating-life-leonard-nimoy\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> this morning. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Richard Michelson and Leonard Nimoy taken by Sylvia Mautner Photography and used by permission of Richard Michelson. Photo of Edel Rodriguez used by his permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;When I speak to children or to aspiring authors, I always advise them to listen carefully when their parents and grandparents and best friends and best friend\u2019s parents talk about their lives. \u2018Everyone has a story to tell,\u2019 I say. \u2018Just remember to write it down.\u2019 And yet why did it never occur to [&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-4150","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\/4150","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=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}