{"id":4355,"date":"2017-05-25T06:31:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T12:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2017-05-25T06:31:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T12:31:03","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-deborah-heiligman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4355","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Deborah Heiligman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/05\/Matt Peyton photofor post.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">I thought I knew everything about Vincent, but then I was in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in the summer of 2011, and I saw a mention of Theo. Next to a painting, it said something about how Theo supported Vincent. I was bowled over. I probably gasped. I had forgotten he had a brother, and I had no idea that Theo had supported him. I knew right away that I wanted to write a book about the brothers someday.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that? You want a recommendation for a great book? I&#8217;ve got one: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahheiligman.com\/\">Deborah Heiligman&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <em>Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers<\/em>, published by Henry Holt in April, a book officially geared at the late middle-grade\/YA crowd but which I say is for all ages. It&#8217;s the best book I&#8217;ve read this year, and I&#8217;m pleased that Deborah chatted with me about the book over at <em>Kirkus<\/em>. I enjoyed our conversation. <\/p>\n<p>That is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/brotherly-love-deborah-heiligman\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> today. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of Deborah taken by Matt Peyton.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I thought I knew everything about Vincent, but then I was in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in the summer of 2011, and I saw a mention of Theo. Next to a painting, it said something about how Theo supported Vincent. I was bowled over. I probably gasped. I had forgotten he had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-blogger-interviews","category-young-adult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","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=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}