{"id":4294,"date":"2017-03-16T05:30:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T11:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2017-03-16T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T11:30:34","slug":"the-magic-touch-of-staying-in-closer-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4294","title":{"rendered":"The Magic Touch of Staying in Closer Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/03\/Corduroyforpost.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got something entirely different over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today. Instead of talking to a picture book or middle-grade author or to an illustrator, I talk to a volunteer for a literacy program run by Ann Arbor&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensliteracynetwork.org\/\">Children&#8217;s Literacy Network<\/a><\/strong>. This non-profit organization&#8217;s program, called Staying in Closer Touch, unites incarcerated parents and their children through children\u2019s books. I heard all about it on a recent visit to Ann Arbor and wanted to write about it, should other literacy non-profits want to learn more. <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A with volunteer Bonnie Schramm is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/magic-touch\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. (<em>Corduroy<\/em> is mentioned in our chat. Hence, the image here.) <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got something entirely different over at Kirkus today. Instead of talking to a picture book or middle-grade author or to an illustrator, I talk to a volunteer for a literacy program run by Ann Arbor&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Literacy Network. This non-profit organization&#8217;s program, called Staying in Closer Touch, unites incarcerated parents and their children through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera","category-blogger-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294","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=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}