{"id":4251,"date":"2017-01-26T12:51:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2017-01-26T12:51:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:51:31","slug":"first-ladies-with-matt-faulkner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4251","title":{"rendered":"First Ladies with Matt Faulkner"},"content":{"rendered":"


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“Carrie Harrison lived at the White House when electric lights were first installed there—and she was scared she’d get zapped by the switches. …”<\/em><\/center>
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\nLast week at Kirkus, I talked here<\/a><\/strong> to both author Ruby Shamir and illustrator Matt Faulkner<\/a><\/strong> about What\u2019s the Big Deal About First Ladies<\/em>, released this month by Philomel. Today, I’m following up with some spreads from the book. <\/p>\n

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“Everyone knows that being president is a major job, but what about being first lady? What’s the big deal about first ladies, anyway?”<\/em>
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“Every president of the United States (so far) has been a man. And almost every first lady has been a woman married to the president. …”<\/em>
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“Some first ladies really hated all the attention. …”<\/em>
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“Many first ladies worked hard to make our nation’s capital, our country, and the world a safer, healthier, and happier place. …”<\/em>
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WHAT’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":"

“Carrie Harrison lived at the White House when electric lights were first installed there—and she was scared she’d get zapped by the switches. …”   Last week at Kirkus, I talked here to both author Ruby Shamir and illustrator Matt Faulkner about What\u2019s the Big Deal About First Ladies, released this month by Philomel. Today, […]<\/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-4251","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\/4251","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=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}