{"id":4162,"date":"2016-09-29T06:02:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T12:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2016-09-29T09:33:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T15:33:57","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-michele-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4162","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Michele Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/09\/IMG MW Birdforpost.JPG\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">One of the things I am looking at as an artist is: How do I tell the truth? How do I inform the truth of the story so that you may not turn away? The truth is not always pretty.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk to  Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelewood.com\/\">Michele Wood<\/a><\/strong>, quoted and pictured here, about <em>Like a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song<\/em>, released this month from Millbrook\/Lerner. <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/air-michele-wood\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> this morning, and next week here at 7-Imp I&#8217;ll follow up with some paintings from the book. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Michele Wood taken by Kevin Parker and used by her permission.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One of the things I am looking at as an artist is: How do I tell the truth? How do I inform the truth of the story so that you may not turn away? The truth is not always pretty.\u201d * * * Over at Kirkus today, I talk to Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator [&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-4162","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\/4162","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=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}