{"id":4245,"date":"2017-01-19T06:37:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T12:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4245"},"modified":"2017-01-19T06:37:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T12:37:16","slug":"putting-first-ladies-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4245","title":{"rendered":"Putting First Ladies First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/01\/What's the Big Deal About First Ladiescutting.jpg\"\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got an interview over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today with Ruby Shamir and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattfaulkner.com\/\">Matt Faulkner<\/a><\/strong>, the author and illustrator of <em>What&#8217;s the Big Deal About First Ladies<\/em>, released this month by Philomel. We talk about leaving the book&#8217;s final page empty until the election results came in, what surprising things they learned in their research, and much more. <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/ladies-first-ruby-shamir-and-matt-faulkner\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. I&#8217;ll have more art from the book here at 7-Imp next week. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>WHAT&#8217;S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT FIRST LADIES. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Ruby Shamir. Illustrations \u00a9 2017 by Matt Faulkner and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Philomel Books, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-blogger-interviews","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245","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=4245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}