{"id":4172,"date":"2016-10-13T05:36:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T11:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2016-10-13T05:36:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T11:36:21","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-jabari-asim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4172","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Jabari Asim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2016\/10\/Jabari Asim - credit Shef Reynolds IIuseforpost.jpg\"><br \/>\n<center><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">I think of [Lewis] as one of the last<br \/>representatives of the golden age of civil rights oratory.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I&#8217;ve got a Q&#038;A with author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therealjabariasim.com\/\">Jabari Asim<\/a><\/strong> about <em>Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis<\/em> (Nancy Paulsen Books, October 2016). Earlier in the year, I showcased some spreads from this book, so if you want to see some of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/eblewis.com\/\">E. B. Lewis&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> exquisite art for the book, head <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4064\">here<\/a><\/strong> and scroll down a bit. <\/p>\n<p>The Q&#038;A with Jabari is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/meeting-young-john-lewis-jabari-asim\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> this morning. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow . . . <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Mr. Asim taken by Shef Reynolds II and used by permission of Penguin Random House.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think of [Lewis] as one of the lastrepresentatives of the golden age of civil rights oratory.\u201d * * * Today over at Kirkus, I&#8217;ve got a Q&#038;A with author Jabari Asim about Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis (Nancy Paulsen Books, October 2016). Earlier in the year, I showcased some [&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-4172","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\/4172","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=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}