{"id":4421,"date":"2017-08-17T08:30:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T14:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2017-08-17T08:30:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T14:30:26","slug":"chris-barton-on-dazzle-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4421","title":{"rendered":"Chris Barton on <em>Dazzle Ships<\/em> . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2017\/08\/Chris_Barton_author_photoforpost.jpg\" style=\"float:right;\"><strong><font size=6>&#8220;<\/strong><\/font><em><strong><font color=\"#777777\">I love research, and in the case of this book, my main research challenge wasn&#8217;t the volume of information or number of sources. &#8230; Instead, the big challenge was navigating the potential for tangents and sprawl in my search for a through-line.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\n<center>* * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Over at <em>Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk to author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbarton.info\/\">Chris Barton<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about his newest picture book, <em>Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion<\/em> (Millbrook\/Lerner, September 2017), illustrated by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/victo-ngai.com\/\">Victo Ngai<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>That Q&#038;A is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/finding-story-chris-barton\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Next week, I&#8217;ll have some art from the book here at 7-Imp. <\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow &#8230;<br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I love research, and in the case of this book, my main research challenge wasn&#8217;t the volume of information or number of sources. &#8230; Instead, the big challenge was navigating the potential for tangents and sprawl in my search for a through-line.\u201d &nbsp; * * * Over at Kirkus today, I talk to author Chris [&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-4421","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\/4421","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=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}