{"id":4388,"date":"2017-07-06T07:11:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2017-07-06T07:18:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:18:08","slug":"my-kirkus-qa-with-leda-schubert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4388","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Kirkus<\/em> Q&#038;A with Leda Schubert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/07\/photoforjulesfor7.jpg\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">Who invented the hot shower? I owe most of my first lines to that brilliant person. I can research and write and think and suffer, and then one morning&#8212;if lucky&#8212;the shower gods deliver a sentence. It is that sentence that allows me to stop researching endlessly and begin to write &#8230;.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk to author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledaschubert.com\/\">Leda Schubert<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about her new picture book biography of Pete Seeger, <em>Listen: How Pete Seeger Got America Singing<\/em> (Neal Porter\/Roaring Brook, June 2017), illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.morgangaynin.com\/artists\/colon\/\">Ra\u00fal Col\u00f3n<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/ledas-song-pete\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Leda&#8217;s photo taken by Bear Pond Books.<\/em><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Who invented the hot shower? I owe most of my first lines to that brilliant person. I can research and write and think and suffer, and then one morning&#8212;if lucky&#8212;the shower gods deliver a sentence. It is that sentence that allows me to stop researching endlessly and begin to write &#8230;.\u201d * * * Over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-interviews","category-nonfiction","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388","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=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}