{"id":4319,"date":"2017-04-13T07:09:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T13:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2017-04-13T07:09:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T13:09:32","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-kenneth-kraegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4319","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Kenneth Kraegel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/04\/Kenneth Kraegel_photo credit Brooke Collierforpost.jpg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">In nature, almost every surface is patterned or varied; tree bark, sand, grasses, even snow is made up of individual snowflakes, if you look closely. Human-made materials tend to be more uniform and monotone &#8212; plastic, drywall, paper. I think those natural surfaces that show more and more detail the closer you look are extraordinarily beautiful and, I suppose, that is what I am aiming for when I make a picture, a complexity that you don\u2019t see at first glance.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today over <em>Kirkus<\/em>, I talk with author-illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2321\">Kenneth Kraegel<\/a><\/strong> about his new picture book, <em>Green Pants<\/em> (Candlewick, March 2017). <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/kenneth-kraegel-seat-his-pants\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> this morning. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have art from the book here at 7-Imp next week. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Kenneth Kraegel taken by Brooke Collier. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In nature, almost every surface is patterned or varied; tree bark, sand, grasses, even snow is made up of individual snowflakes, if you look closely. Human-made materials tend to be more uniform and monotone &#8212; plastic, drywall, paper. I think those natural surfaces that show more and more detail the closer you look are extraordinarily [&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-4319","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\/4319","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=4319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}