{"id":4341,"date":"2017-05-11T09:40:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T15:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4341"},"modified":"2017-05-11T09:41:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T15:41:40","slug":"summer-reading-with-kwame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4341","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading with Kwame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/05\/KwameHighresSigning_croppedforpost.jpg\"><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my favorite thing that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kwamealexander.com\/\">Kwame Alexander<\/a><\/strong> says today in our <em>Kirkus<\/em> chat about how he&#8217;s been named the 2017 National Summer Reading Champion for the Collaborative Summer Library Program: <\/p>\n<p>When I asked him what he would say to a kid who tells him summer isn\u2019t for reading, he responded: &#8220;I wouldn\u2019t say anything. I\u2019d just read them a poem.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/summer-reading-kwame-alexander\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: Donnie Biggs.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here&#8217;s my favorite thing that Kwame Alexander says today in our Kirkus chat about how he&#8217;s been named the 2017 National Summer Reading Champion for the Collaborative Summer Library Program: When I asked him what he would say to a kid who tells him summer isn\u2019t for reading, he responded: &#8220;I wouldn\u2019t say anything. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-blogger-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341","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=4341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}